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Here's a list of the sixteen most popular majors for last Fall.

  1. FINANCE
  2. BIOLOGY
  3. PSYCHOLOGY
  4. ACCOUNTING
  5. MARKETING
  6. COMMUNICATION
  7. MATHEMATICS
  8. COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
  9. POLITICAL SCIENCE
  10. ECONOMICS
  11. NURSING
  12. ANIMAL SCIENCES
  13. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  14. ENGLISH
  15. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
  16. HISTORY
Communication is the only one on that list that I would say is suspect.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Here's a list of the sixteen most popular majors for last Fall.

  1. FINANCE
  2. BIOLOGY
  3. PSYCHOLOGY
  4. ACCOUNTING
  5. MARKETING
  6. COMMUNICATION
  7. MATHEMATICS
  8. COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
  9. POLITICAL SCIENCE
  10. ECONOMICS
  11. NURSING
  12. ANIMAL SCIENCES
  13. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  14. ENGLISH
  15. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
  16. HISTORY
Communication is the only one on that list that I would say is suspect.
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Here's a list of the sixteen most popular majors for last Fall.

  1. FINANCE
  2. BIOLOGY
  3. PSYCHOLOGY
  4. ACCOUNTING
  5. MARKETING
  6. COMMUNICATION
  7. MATHEMATICS
  8. COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
  9. POLITICAL SCIENCE
  10. ECONOMICS
  11. NURSING
  12. ANIMAL SCIENCES
  13. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  14. ENGLISH
  15. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
  16. HISTORY
Communication is the only one on that list that I would say is suspect.
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Oh... 3, 9, 10, 15, and 16 are pretty fluffy undergrad.
 
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AKAK said:
Oh... 3, 9, 10, 15, and 16 are pretty fluffy undergrad.
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Strongly disagree. Anyone majoring in humanities and social science at Ohio State has more and harder math and science requirements than business majors, a foreign language requirement and actually has to be able to write in a reasoned manner to pass tests. I knew plenty of business majors who would've struggled in a History or Political Science major (much less economics), but I never knew a liberal arts major who wouldn't have done just fine had they wanted to major in business. Harder competition too. I can't find the info on Ohio State's website anymore, but the college of Arts & Sciences has always had higher entering ACT scores than Fisher.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Strongly disagree. Anyone majoring in humanities and social science at Ohio State has more and harder math and science requirements than business majors, a foreign language requirement and actually has to be able to write in a reasoned manner to pass tests. I knew plenty of business majors who would've struggled in a History or Political Science major (much less economics), but I never knew a liberal arts major who wouldn't have done just fine had they wanted to major in business. Harder competition too. I can't find the info on Ohio State's website anymore, but the college of Arts & Sciences has always had higher entering ACT scores than Fisher.
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I think its really a matter of aptitude. I found Poli Sci and Econ served me well to allow me to keep to my intensive drinking schedule in a way that other majors would not have. But to each his own.
 
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AKAK said:
I think its really a matter of aptitude. I found Poli Sci and Econ served me well to allow me to keep to my intensive drinking schedule in a way that other majors would not have. But to each his own.
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I'd say interest in the subject more than aptitude. I started out with plans on Aeronautical Engineering, and while I bore down and did well in the hard science-engineering sequences for Calculus and Physics, I was miserable. Helped me on the quantitative section of the GRE though.

There was a business history class that satisfied some requirement for business majors, so it was always a huge class. It also had a reputation as an easy A for History majors because all those business majors pushed the curve way down. Now, I'm not sure if that's because they weren't interested in the class or thought it would be high school history with a bunch of multiple choice questions and underestimated it or really were incapable of doing the critical reading and answering test question with well reasoned and well written essays, but I've always been stunned at how poorly they did. And it wasn't even that difficult of a class compared to many other humanities and social science classes that I had.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Strongly disagree. Anyone majoring in humanities and social science at Ohio State has more and harder math and science requirements than business majors, a foreign language requirement and actually has to be able to write in a reasoned manner to pass tests. I knew plenty of business majors who would've struggled in a History or Political Science major (much less economics), but I never knew a liberal arts major who wouldn't have done just fine had they wanted to major in business. Harder competition too. I can't find the info on Ohio State's website anymore, but the college of Arts & Sciences has always had higher entering ACT scores than Fisher.
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I have a degree in Political Science. The extent of the math I had to take was college algebra. The extent of the science was one biological or physical science and a lab and second class for one of them. That was it. Unless you count the statistics class that I had to take which consisted of learning to kind of code.

Of course, maybe I was doing it wrong, which would be the reason I'm back getting a degree in evolutionary biology.
 
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Buckeye Maniac said:
I have a degree in Political Science. The extent of the math I had to take was college algebra. The extent of the science was one biological or physical science and a lab and second class for one of them. That was it. Unless you count the statistics class that I had to take which consisted of learning to kind of code.

Of course, maybe I was doing it wrong, which would be the reason I'm back getting a degree in evolutionary biology.
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At Ohio State? If my memory serves me correctly, anyone getting a BA had to have 20 hours of foreign language, 20 hours of hard science (with both physical and biological classes), 15 hours of math at calculus or above, 10 hours of writing or literature. Math and Science requirements were steeper for a BS. All of this was in quarters, so 20 hours would be the equal of 1 1/3 years.
 
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Buckeye Maniac said:
Yep. Class of '11.
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Maybe I'm wrong because I'd already gone through a full year of calculus as to what the math requirements were, but I seem to remember it being the 131-133 series. 151-153 was what I took as pre-engineering. All those numbers would have changed with the switch to semesters I'm sure. If it's only one class now and non-calculus though, it certainly seems as though they've lessened the burden.
 
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Maybe I'm wrong because I'd already gone through a full year of calculus as to what the math requirements were, but I seem to remember it being the 131-133 series. 151-153 was what I took as pre-engineering. All those numbers would have changed with the switch to semesters I'm sure. If it's only one class now and non-calculus though, it certainly seems as though they've lessened the burden.
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I had to take 148, and nothing more. And I"m honestly not sure I actually had to take up to that, that's just what I tested into and the requirement was for 1 math class.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
At Ohio State? If my memory serves me correctly, anyone getting a BA had to have 20 hours of foreign language, 20 hours of hard science (with both physical and biological classes), 15 hours of math at calculus or above, 15 hours of writing or literature. Math and Science requirements were steeper for a BS.
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Yeah, but if you tested out of the Lab science you could show up to astronomy stoned and it would make more sense. Science? Done. Further I remember the 4th foreign language was a culture class conducted in the language (if you wanted). Also tested out of 2 of those.

But yeah, I hated fucking accounting, so, writing long ass essays about the bay of pigs and shit like that wasn't too hard. :lol:. Memorizing rules is lame.

On the other hand, I'm a software engineer now, it's not that hard. Well... The software part. People are challenging.
 
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AKAK said:
ORD_Buckeye said:
At Ohio State? If my memory serves me correctly, anyone getting a BA had to have 20 hours of foreign language, 20 hours of hard science (with both physical and biological classes), 15 hours of math at calculus or above, 15 hours of writing or literature. Math and Science requirements were steeper for a BS.
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Yeah, but if you tested out of the Lab science you could show up to astronomy stoned and it would make more sense. Science? Done. Further I remember the 4th foreign language was a culture class conducted in the language (if you wanted). Also tested out of 2 of those.

But yeah, I hated fucking accounting, so, writing long ass essays about the bay of pigs and shit like that wasn't too hard. :lol:. Memorizing rules is lame.

On the other hand, I'm a software engineer now, it's not that hard. Well... The software part. People are challenging.
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And I manage a private investment fund. Still wouldn't trade my liberal arts degree/masters in international relations for a biz degree/mba combo in a million years.
 
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