<p>and a lot of college majors make 10 to 20 thousand more than other college majors</p>
<p>Do you have evidence for this claim?</p>
<p>Can you separate the conflated variables and demonstrate that it’s the major and not another hidden set of variables?</p>
<p>Not so easy to do.</p>
<p>[Career</a> Center - What Can I Do With a Major In…?](<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/major/Major.stm]Career”>http://career.berkeley.edu/major/Major.stm)</p>
<p>compare majors, obviously students who major in bus admin will have better job prospects and better salaries and so will most engineers</p>
<p>you can also refer to payscale</p>
<p>or bls to look at jobs for whatever major and see the demand and the average salary and deducing from this it is obvious some majors do</p>
<p>there are variables, but there are also facts as the chances of one person in one major finding a job and a better salary as another major, and not everyone can be startup business moguls and make their own fortune</p>
<p>my major is ee not cause of job but because i like it… my sis majored in french and now she works for lionsgate films and does things that would make you all jealous 
so i work to live not live to work and those of you with easier majors enjoy :)</p>
<p>you also need to take into account connections. your sister might have had a lot of connections to get that job, but your career in electrical engineering will have a higher earning potential in the long run</p>
<p>hey guys.
so i think i messed up choosing anthro as my alternative major at ucla. unfortunately, i was rejected as a comm studies major. talking with professionals, they are telling me that it would be difficult to enter the corporate job force with an anthro degree, unless i have some sort of masters within a different field. i do agree that people can make out of their major. unfortunately, i don’t really see myself enjoying this subject. so basically, i didn’t do my research and fcked up. so my question is that, is possible for me to change my major from anthro to possibly global studies (non impacted)? thanks</p>
<p>forensic anthropology guys! csi and stuff!</p>
<p>i’m surprised it’s not more popular.</p>
<p>i got into ucla as an anthro major and yes i get that “youre gonna be working at starbucks” crap a lot. but then i tell them im going into academia and pursue a PhD to become a professor then they shut the fuxxx up.</p>
<p>I am so tired of judgmental people…I mean as long as the person in enjoying what they are doing… leave it be! :)</p>
<p>get a phd and go to school for six years just to be the manager of that starbucks. i asked a lot of professors in that department and they said its tough to get a teaching job at a university because people have tenure and sometimes its hard to get a phd because anthropology has a lot of known people who are resistant to change whenever new research comes up so it’ll be tough to get your name out there, but hey college students always need starbucks</p>
<p>same thing goes for sociology, yea you want to do social work, and same thing goes for political science, yea you want to go to political office, good luck with that, or you want to be a lawyer, yea ok, have you ever opened up to see how many lawyers there are posting to get you to hire them, i counted 20 in a magazine in one small city one time</p>
<p>yeah if i had an attitude like yours i wouldnt make it anywhere.</p>
<p>i have no fear about getting into the profession i want, i have personality and looks to offer any department so the old stale tenure dinosaurs better watch out. </p>
<p>plus even with a masters i could get a sweet little job at any cc.</p>
<p>i have a lot of drive and ambition, ucla anthro dept. better watch out.</p>
<p>ok i just gotta defend the anthro major here since I got into UCLA with that major also. Anthro just happens to be my passion and I plan on going to grad school and doing my thesis living with a native amazon tribe which will provide me great insight into the field. After that I plan on teaching college because one of my professors at my JC did something similar and his class was life changing and actually made me want to go into anthro in the first place. So what im really getting at is that I want to educate, change student’s lives, and possibly come up with some kind of help for these increasingly stepped upon amazon tribes, so no, the anthro major is not completely useless.</p>
<p>ucla has about a 65% admit rate for anthropology transfers… good odds. I’m in too as an anthro major! :)</p>
<p>just waiting on cal!</p>
<p>good cause, but don’t expect to be rich. i’m not sure a lot of universities will fund that expedition because they’re more interested in biological anthropology</p>
<p>and an anthropology major doesn’t mean you can’t make money. sales and marketing departments value the insight an anthropology degree can bring. i did sales for 10 years and did just fine without even having a degree; with ANY degree, i would have been great!</p>
<p>also, applied anthropology is a field in business when you’re literally an anthropologist in the business world (i.e. using the learnings with human resources, to identify company cultures, etc…)</p>
<p>besides, professorships make good dough.</p>
<p>and law school and med school would probably think well of an anthro. major.</p>
<p>besides, it’s SUPER fun and easy to enjoy!</p>
<p>What if I wanted to become a teacher? (Not a professor.) Would anthro help me or hurt me with that? OR would it not matter as long as I get my teaching credential?</p>
<p>my sister wants to be a teacher and from what she has told me it doesnt matter what major you choose just as long as you obtain your teaching credentials</p>
<p>I am majoring in cultural anthro and I will be attending UCLA. I have a 3.88!! And I am going straight to LAW school so I will still be very wealthy with my anthro degree…thank you guys very much!!</p>