What is considered a unique or nichy major?
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Anonymous
| What exactly would be considered a unique or niche major? |
Anonymous
| Linguistics |
Anonymous
| Pottery. My cousin not only majored in it, but then got a master's degree. In pottery. |
Anonymous
| It depends on the school. For example, Georgia Tech recently started an urban planning degree and will no doubt recruit heavily for students who can fill it so it isn't DoA. |
Anonymous
| East Asian studies, urban planning, Spanish or French literature, classics, musicology. |
Anonymous
| Germanic or French studies, gender studies, myth and folklore |
Anonymous
| Linguistics, classics, French, and urban planning are the 4 our private college counselor suggested. Kid was obviously taking French and Latin. |
Anonymous
| My kid is going to major in music technology. |
Anonymous
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Liturgical Dance
Folklore & Mythology Ancient Languages (not Latin or Greek) Geography Theology/Divinity (not clergy) Yiddish Medieval Studies Kinesiology (not athlete) Fiber Arts |
Anonymous
| Ceramics like materials engineering. Not just pottery |
Anonymous
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As an engineering major, I took a linguistics class.
OMG, it was so interesting. I know people like to put down those kind of majors, but even then I could totally see how some of the things taught in that class could be applied to the technology sector. |
Anonymous
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Depends on school (eg institutional strength)
Yale (top degrees): Economics, Comp Sci, Political Science, History (least subscribed): Earth and planetary Sciences Germanic Literature, Romance Languages & Literature, African American Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexual Studies Harvard (top degrees): Economics, Government/Poli Sci, Computer Science, History, Social Sciences, and Biology. (least subscribed): South Asian Studies, Religion, Myth/Folklore, Germanic Language/Studies, African American Studies |
Anonymous
| I know someone who majored in Welsh. At Harvard. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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