Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

Communications is under Art and Science

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the Chinese are now majoring in communications.

Yep. Part of the takeover.

Related to AI technology

Also buying all of our farm land

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the Chinese are now majoring in communications.

Yep. Part of the takeover.

Related to AI technology

Also buying all of our farm land

Is communication related to AI technology?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

Communications is under Art and Science

That’s why this eight-year-old data makes no sense.
Someone here thinks that she can try and prove a point (because she’s faster and can get to the information before anyone else) - you have to wonder what kind of crazy person would actually take the time to Google this?!?
lol
She’s an idiot and does this all the time on this forum and is clearly bored at her job.
Who cares!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

Communications is under Art and Science

DP. No where in the source is that communicated. Seems pretty clear Communications and "arts and sciences" are separate fields, otherwise the number of communications majors would contribute to Arts and Sciences.

[Anonymous]

Look at the Common Data Sets for each University, for Bachelor's Degrees awarded.

For Michigan, in the 2022-23 data set, Communications was in the 200s, History in the 90s, and all Area/Ethnic Studies in the 60s.

I am a parent with a Michigan grad degree. My son is starting LSA this year.

I mentioned favoring dual majors but here I would propose a History Major with Communications Minor, especially if the student can write credibly about their specific interest in History and connect it to Michigan courses.

It's unlikely that top athletes will be interacting with your child's application. It makes sense to me that future NFL types would be interested in issues related to Communication. They are probably more interested in sports journalism, broadcast journalism. P.R., media virality, etc. Staying away from sports topics is probably sufficient.

Regarding other schools, just compare degrees awarded to the total size of the class.

How big should a major be to be big? Hard to say, depends on the size of the university. 200 or 300 grads a year is a good size department. 50 or fewer is small at a big school. The Ford Public Policy at Michigan is about 80 per year and that is a selective degree that accepts about 50% of internal applicants.

My husband was in a small but healthy liberal arts major at a big school. He knew almost all the other majors. It gives a big school a much smaller feel, if that is desired.

Look into the Michigan Honors College and Residential College options.

Best of luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

My son is an athlete and his counselor immediately asked him to change to communications for an easier schedule and scheduling.

Most the top try hard students stayed in business.

All of the, business or finance, are in finance and software sales no matter their degree except the accountants.

A few (the best athletes) stayed for their extra year and got graduate degrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

It was the major for young women seeking to double major in getting an Mrs Degree when I was in undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

From 2016, but there doesn't seem to be anything more recent "Bleacher Report recently reported on the most popular majors for Power 5 Conference Football Players. Those conferences include the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference (B1G), Big 12 Conference (Big 12), Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), and Southeastern Conference (SEC). Communication was the most popular major reported for Power 5 Players, with 323 majors, followed by Sociology (294), Business (291), General Studies (289), and Arts & Sciences (195). Of the 65 universities in the Power 5 conference, 38 reported Communication as being among their top five majors. "

https://www.natcom.org/sites/default/files/publications/NCA_C-Brief_2016_October.pdf

I'd assume that athletes who had to pass higher admissions bars are less likely to major in communications

Communications is under Art and Science

DP. No where in the source is that communicated. Seems pretty clear Communications and "arts and sciences" are separate fields, otherwise the number of communications majors would contribute to Arts and Sciences.

At uva it’s not at UNmp it is.

[Anonymous]

UMCP *

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware of communications being the athletes major.

It was the major for young women seeking to double major in getting an Mrs Degree when I was in undergrad.

Your Jordache jeans are too tight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the Common Data Sets for each University, for Bachelor's Degrees awarded.

For Michigan, in the 2022-23 data set, Communications was in the 200s, History in the 90s, and all Area/Ethnic Studies in the 60s.

I am a parent with a Michigan grad degree. My son is starting LSA this year.

I mentioned favoring dual majors but here I would propose a History Major with Communications Minor, especially if the student can write credibly about their specific interest in History and connect it to Michigan courses.

It's unlikely that top athletes will be interacting with your child's application. It makes sense to me that future NFL types would be interested in issues related to Communication. They are probably more interested in sports journalism, broadcast journalism. P.R., media virality, etc. Staying away from sports topics is probably sufficient.

Regarding other schools, just compare degrees awarded to the total size of the class.

How big should a major be to be big? Hard to say, depends on the size of the university. 200 or 300 grads a year is a good size department. 50 or fewer is small at a big school. The Ford Public Policy at Michigan is about 80 per year and that is a selective degree that accepts about 50% of internal applicants.

My husband was in a small but healthy liberal arts major at a big school. He knew almost all the other majors. It gives a big school a much smaller feel, if that is desired.

Look into the Michigan Honors College and Residential College options.

Best of luck!

DP:
This is soo helpful. Are the numbers in the CDS data the number of graduates that year or the number of kids who were accepted and matriculated w/that major that year?

And would you pick history because of the numbers? What if sociology or anthropology or economics were similar numbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMCP *

I’d imagine a different tier of candidate is Comm at Michigan /Vanderbilt/Stanford ?
Or no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMCP *

I’d imagine a different tier of candidate is Comm at Michigan /Vanderbilt/Stanford ?
Or no?

Listen to an interview with a cornerback or defensive end from one of those schools. They have to major in something