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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Major/program is much more important than the school itself.
So you have to always look at the School/Major combination.

Business(McIntire) at UVA is much more elite than gender study at Yale or Harvard.
Computer Science at Carnegie Melon is much much more elite than physcholgy at Northweatern or U Chigago or any other top 10 school.

You have to look at the College/Major combination to see if it's truly elite, and furthermore what they are doing right after college.

My friend graduated from Yale art with ton of debt. He has been practically jobless for years and years, and barely got a job as an art teacher at a high school.
So much for eliteness. There are endless cases like this.

It's almost shocking that people here extensively talk about colleges, but not much on the majors and programs itself.

There's higher chance that a CS major at GMU would turn out more elite than a psychology major at UVA.

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I think the word "elite" is being used incorrectly above.  The posters are really referring to expected earnings by major rather than elite.[/quote]

If someone says I go to Princeton, I study gender study.  Does it sound elite?
I go to Northwestern, I major in dance. Does it sound elite?

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Princeton and Northwestern may be termed elite and gaining admission to those schools therefore may convey status.  You can have a school within a university that is more elite in status than the overall institution (e.g. Wharton at Penn), but majors per se are not elite, and at a liberal arts school like Princeton, the major will only constitute about 30% of total coursework credit.

For the major, you can say it offers limited financial opportunities vs other majors, etc., or you can say a major at a school is stronger than other majors at that school, but that doesn't change the overall status of the school.[/quote]

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