So many math majors

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Anonymous wrote:If the ship has sailed for CS and Business, why are they flocking to math?

is it considered a liberal arts major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the ship has sailed for CS and Business, why are they flocking to math?

is it considered a liberal arts major?

Yes. But PP said that they chose math acceptance over CS and business acceptance, so admissions difficulty doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is old but the trend hasn't reversed. Rise of math major (and other STEM) at UCSD: https://ir.ucsd.edu/_files/stats-data/enrollment/ugmajor.pdf

That’s because they started offering a Math+CS major that is easier to get into than the regular CS major.

Numbers are up dramatically across sub categories, 600 undergrad math degrees per year is enormous. True CS numbers are beginning to dip at around 400.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is old but the trend hasn't reversed. Rise of math major (and other STEM) at UCSD: https://ir.ucsd.edu/_files/stats-data/enrollment/ugmajor.pdf

That’s because they started offering a Math+CS major that is easier to get into than the regular CS major.

Numbers are up dramatically across sub categories, 600 undergrad math degrees per year is enormous. True CS numbers are beginning to dip at around 400.

Wait math is more popular than CS now???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is old but the trend hasn't reversed. Rise of math major (and other STEM) at UCSD: https://ir.ucsd.edu/_files/stats-data/enrollment/ugmajor.pdf

That’s because they started offering a Math+CS major that is easier to get into than the regular CS major.

Numbers are up dramatically across sub categories, 600 undergrad math degrees per year is enormous. True CS numbers are beginning to dip at around 400.

Wait math is more popular than CS now???

No way. Finance seems to be most popular right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is old but the trend hasn't reversed. Rise of math major (and other STEM) at UCSD: https://ir.ucsd.edu/_files/stats-data/enrollment/ugmajor.pdf

That’s because they started offering a Math+CS major that is easier to get into than the regular CS major.

Numbers are up dramatically across sub categories, 600 undergrad math degrees per year is enormous. True CS numbers are beginning to dip at around 400.

Wait math is more popular than CS now???

No way. Finance seems to be most popular right now.

Finance? No not really at all. Econ -> CS -> Math, but the west coast schools will see CS-> Math -> Econ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is old but the trend hasn't reversed. Rise of math major (and other STEM) at UCSD: https://ir.ucsd.edu/_files/stats-data/enrollment/ugmajor.pdf

That’s because they started offering a Math+CS major that is easier to get into than the regular CS major.

Numbers are up dramatically across sub categories, 600 undergrad math degrees per year is enormous. True CS numbers are beginning to dip at around 400.

Wait math is more popular than CS now???

At UCSD, yes, but caps on CS are part of that. Bio is much more popular. This is all specific to the region, of course. Still the increase in math majors there is dramatic. In 2006 it wasn't in the top ten about 100 per year, now it's 600 graduates per year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love all of the assumption of strategy here. My kid likes math, is really good at it, isn’t interested in CS or engineering, and doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do professionally. So he plans to major in math.

I decided on my majors (including English, which was then the most popular major at my large state university—how the times have changed!) the same way. Subjects that interested me, that I had an affinity for, and that I figured I could apply to whatever career I pursued.

For every kid choosing math strategically I’m guessing there’s at least one like my kid who just likes math.

Mine is the same. She wasn't totally sure about majoring, but it seemed like a nice balance to her arts interests, and she is doing well in both areas. With math, it's been difficult to connect it to tangible intern opps, since she does not do much comp sci, but her current opp was the result of math and arts. I think they liked her creativity and communication skills in conjunction with analytic.

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting that math is becoming the most popular major when so many students are math phobic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting that math is becoming the most popular major when so many students are math phobic.

Those aren’t the students going to T20s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting that math is becoming the most popular major when so many students are math phobic.

Those aren’t the students going to T20s.

many t20 institutions offer history of math courses to get students out of taking actual quantitative courses for their math requirements. We do tend to overselect for math abilities, but you can 100% get into a t20 hating math.