Outstanding !
If I recall correctly, the University of Virginia made a substantial investment in the area of Data Science a few years ago.
Both U Virginia & WM. & Mary are Virginia state publics.
Cybersecurity is the first major that they’ve announced.
Interesting that they’re going to a secondary application model where you apply after first year. For comp sci, I can understand, but it would one of the few (only?) physics programs that require a secondary app. I’d expect physics majors to maybe look elsewhere because of it.
I believe the standard physics major will be separate from the majors at the new school.
Ah, that’s interesting! I hadn’t seen that reported.
I could be totally blowing smoke on that. But I don’t think the new college/majors will affect students being able to major in physics if that is their choice.
I’d probably take the other side of that bet. Looks like physics enrollment has been way up over the years. This might be a way to slow that down. Otherwise, why move physics to the new school?
But happy to be proven wrong and guess we won’t know for a little while if it’s just getting built/approved now.
Yes, I’ve been to some meetings about the new school, but haven’t gotten a good feel for the structure, yet. We shall see.
There is some interesting info on these pages if you haven’t seen. https://www.wm.edu/about/administration/provost/action-areas/newschool/blueprint/
Interesting! Caught this line:
“Undergraduate students in good standing will be admitted in their second year at William & Mary as long as they meet minimum criteria”
So guess it’s to be determined what the “minimum criteria” is. Also looks like it’s all the BS in physics majors, so I’d expect they’d have to pass the criteria.
Anyway, hopefully not too onerous.
The usual expectation is that the minimum criteria will be based on the capacity of the major versus interest.
Physics is not ordinarily an oversubscribed major, so it would not be surprising if the criteria were just completing the prerequisite courses with at least C grades in each. But the grade or GPA requirements for an oversubscribed major (like CS may be) could be substantially higher.
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