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Course: College admissions > Unit 3
Lesson 3: College search: Other important choices- Comparing colleges based on financial aid policies
- Comparing colleges based on special focus or affiliation
- Comparing colleges based on diversity
- Comparing colleges based on location, size, and housing
- Comparing colleges based on campus activities
- Comparing colleges based on majors offered
- Student story: Prioritizing financial aid in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing location in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing financial aid, major, and location in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing size, campus, major, and selectivity in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing size, selectivity, diversity and financial aid in the college search
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Comparing colleges based on majors offered
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- I was really surprised to hear this person say that the major does not really matter. How can that be the case? Don't colleges have differing reputations regarding the quality of their different majors? I thought colleges specialised, and some colleges are well known for offering a brilliant education in certain subjects.(12 votes)
- Another good way to research majors is to look up various school rankings according to major. This is especially important for highly competitive fields, who like to see graduates who have come from a rigorous, highly acclaimed environment. If you just google "(your major) college ranking" something should come up.(5 votes)
- What is the highest degree you can get at any university?(4 votes)
- The highest attainable degree in the United States is a doctoral or professional degree. Once you earn a doctoral or professional degree (MD, JD, Ph.D., etc), you earn the title of Doctor.(4 votes)
- What is an Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions?(3 votes)
- http://www.nacacnet.org/career-center/Tools/JobDescriptions/Pages/AssociateDirectorofAdmissions.aspx
Hope this helps.(4 votes)
- What is an undergraduate?(2 votes)
- An undergraduate is a student that hasn't yet graduated with a degree from his or her college or university.(5 votes)
- How come universities and colleges have primary focuses( Harvard-Law, Auburn-engineering)?(3 votes)
- Mostly because there is not enough money available to be good at everything.(3 votes)
- Which Universities would be suggested for majors in Quantum Sciences?(3 votes)
- Why do colleges have certain majors? For example, why does a university have an engineering major and not one in astronomy?(2 votes)
- Because not every school is equip to teach every major in the world. The primarily engineering university may not have the room or resources to add an astronomy major. You'd need many astronomy professors, preferably with doctorates in their field... and hiring professors costs money. You'd probably need an observatory to look at space, planets, stars, etc. Building a project like that is more money the university may not have.(3 votes)
- what college is best for pharmacy(3 votes)
- how do you know if we have different classes?(2 votes)
- there many many classes even thousand school or colleges that different kind classes to learn a SKILLS(2 votes)
- I want to pursue Literature as well as Mathematics. Can anyone help me by naming a few good colleges which have both the degrees to offer?(2 votes)
Video transcript
- I think it's important to have a sense of what it is you want to study in college, and that you have a sense of the major that you wish to declare. But it shouldn't be the driving force for which university that you choose. Fit is a good, is an important thing. You want to make sure that
you're at an institution that is a really strong fit,
that really inspires you, and that you really
feel comfortable living for the next four years, because that's really
going to be a real beacon and a measure of how
successful you're going to be because you want to be comfortable. Major is important, and I don't want to make it
sound as though it isn't, but most universities have
the majority of majors that students are interested in, and I think that... And we find that students
change their major, on average, about three times in their undergraduate program. So it is something that
students should approach with an open mind. Major is important, but I don't think it should
be the top of the list. It should not be necessarily
the driving factor for which university
you're going to choose.