What are the most popular majors at UCI?

[flemmyd]

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Bio science majors have practically no exit options aside from medical school. If you DO want to attend medical school, why would you ever major in biology? The point is to make yourself stand apart from other applicants. Choosing the same major as 70% of medical school applicants doesn’t really accomplish that.

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<p>A lot of people I met freshmen year in the bio major didn’t want to go to med school. They heard (I dont know where from… other clueless high school kids?) that UCI’s bio program is rigorous. They went with a “If I can do bio here at uci, I can do anything” type mentality. </p>

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You may think that’s a good or bad thing, but it’s the reality. With that in mind, it does make me wonder why everyone isn’t clamoring to get into engineering. My only guess why is that it seems too hard to most people.

A lot of times, its economics. Some of my friends who left engr basically ran into this decision:

1. work my butt off to be an engr and make 50k+ graduating.
2. screw around as a biz econ major and make 40k+ graduating.</p>

<p>they didn’t think the extra work (both as an undergrad and during the job) was worth it. I don’t know if i agree with their numbers or analysis, but thats the logic i ran into. </p>

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Average starting salary for Chemical Engineering majors: $64,800

the problem with this number: where do you go to be a chemical engr? most chemEs work at the actual chemical factory. they place those factories where land is cheap and they can pollute. they don’t have any chemical factories in the middle of Westwood, for example.</p>