Suggestions for math major

ucbalumnus
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 04:34:36 +0000

Erin's Dad:

I guess that’s the emphasis colleges now have - more majors related specifically to job related fields.



Why is that a surprise? A majority of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the US are in overtly pre-professional majors. Even decades ago, many students in liberal arts majors chose them for pre-professional reasons (e.g. pre-meds studying biology, pre-laws studying political science, and students doing applied math or statistics for actuarial preparation).