About 80 percent of college students change their major at least once during their time at school, according to Fritz Grupe, founder of MyMajors.com. With consistently rising tuition fees — CollegeBoard statistics show the cost of college has increased about 130 percent in the past twenty years — the thought of studying the wrong subject in school isn’t so appealing, particularly not to our (our parents’?) bank accounts.
Enter Laurence Shatkin’s “10 Best College Majors for Your Personality.” A self-assessment helps readers determine whether they are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional and from there, students can read about more than fifty extensively-researched majors. Want to know about which ‘Realistic’ majors will land you the highest paying jobs? Page 38. Are you ‘Conventional,’ and interested in being self-employed? Page 47. Do you consider yourself a person with “self-control” (interpret as you will)? Page 82 is for you.
This edition of the guidebook also features top college majors that relate to non-desk jobs, because who wants to be working in a cubicle all day? “We live in an information-based economy, with much of the growth in Dilbert-type settings, so any list of the best jobs or best majors includes many options that are not highly active. Nevertheless, a list such as the following can help you avoid the most sedentary choices,” explains Shatkin. Among those majors include economics, accounting, biology and biochemistry, with law being the only course of study in the humanities field. This is great news for me, as I’m an English major with no intentions of going to law school. Well, at least there’s a section for top majors that lead to jobs held by a high percentage of men…
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http://www.jist.com/shop/product.php?productid=16767&cat=0&page=1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10154383/ns/business-personal_finance/t/coll…