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[quote=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!

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