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<p>Physics, math, and biology also have sequences of courses that must be started early (usually in freshman year) to avoid delaying graduation. Art and music may also have a lot of course requirements which can make it difficult to start the major late.</p>
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<p>Hmmm, Berkeley students are about three quarters liberal arts (approximated by using the College of Letters and Science division) at graduation. But some of the liberal arts majors (e.g. art practice, economics, psychology) are capacity limited and require applying to declare or change to.</p>
<p>San Jose State admits all freshman by major, including liberal arts majors; changing or declaring major requires applying to do so, usually with department approval. However, liberal arts majors are much less popular there, so it is probably not difficult to be admitted to most of them.</p>
<p>Perhaps the limitations may have more to do with the popularity of majors running into the school’s and department’s capacity limitations which may be more common at public universities under budget pressure.</p>