<p>thank youuu</p>
<p>The major doesn’t make you, YOU make the major.</p>
<p>I would say doctors, lawyers, and businessmen tend to be the most popular career tracks as they’re highly pre-professional and tend to be among the highest paid. But among these careers, there are a plethora of majors that doctors/lawyers/businessmen were in college, from English to Biochemistry to Sociology and Mechanical Engineering.</p>
<p>Many people who are so and so major actually don’t end up doing anything remotely related to that major, while there are a lot of people who actually do spend their lives doing exactly what their major is–for example, someone may get a B.A. in physics and then continue to get a Ph. D and then go into research or teaching. Who knows.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is, it’s not what your major is but what you DO with it. Your major doesn’t define you and shouldn’t limit your options (unless you pick a really obscure major that doesn’t lend itself to job opportunities). You could graduate with an East Asian studies or English major and then go on to be a successful CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or decide later in life you like biomedical research and go into that, or even just to teach English at high school or something. </p>
<p>There’s so many factors and variables that it’s not so black-and-white that oh I have an Accounting degree I will be a lot more successful than someone with a Women’s Studies or Sociology degree.</p>
<p>Go into something that you love doing, something that you’re passionate about, and the money will follow. That’s being idealistic about it, but if you’re concerned with “largest income” I would recommend you to go to grad school (med/law/business) but what you major in doesn’t necessarily matter so much.</p>
<p>I absolutely agree with the previous post. An education is what you make of it and the same applies to whatever career you end up in.</p>
<p>Find something you are passionate about and study that. You will get better grades and learn more as well as likely having more fun doing it. Unless you want to be an accountant, engineer, or a scientist your major doesn’t matter at all. Law school and Medical school’s teach you what you need to know for those careers and your undergraduate major contributes little.</p>
<p>Now this does not mean you shouldn’t consider taking some (4 I think) basic Economics courses including Money and Banking and a Financial Markets course if you can (you may guess that I went to graduate school in economics…), a basic political science course to learn a bit about government, Calculus and writing courses if you can deal with them, and an accounting course. These will allow you to get just about any non-technical job out of school if you choose.</p>
<p>Learning to write and express yourself is the skill that “makes money”. There is only a loose connection between making large amounts of money and academic sucess. At the extreme end Bill Gates is a drop out…</p>
<p>Are you looking just to make money or do you want a life’s work that will make you happy?</p>
<p>“Unless you want to be an accountant, engineer, or a scientist your major doesn’t matter at all”</p>
<p>Not to be nitpicky but you don’t need a specific undergrad degree to be a scientist. In fact, a lot of people don’t even do a PhD in the same field as their undergrad degree. The important thing for science (and even for medical fields) is that you have specific courses in your background including chemistry, biology, physics, genetics, biochem etc.</p>