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[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the worry about not having enough majors at a SLAC compared to a large university unless you're likely to want to major in nursing or engineering or some very technical area where you basically are getting a vocational credential by going to college. And most SLACs these days allow people to create their own major and even take classes at other schools that are part of a consortium. If there isn't Environmental Studies or Black Studies, you can take courses that are required at schools offering those majors. Maybe you'll need to major in biology and do a minor in sociology instead of getting the Human Biology or Neuroscience major that another school offers. Whether you do a "make your own" or a formally offered major will not impact on your career trajectory. Data Science is now all the rage but from the descriptions I've seen, they are not actually much different from Business with an Analytics focus, or Economics with a lot of econometrics coursework. Biostatistics has been around forever at many schools with a medical school or school of public health. Very few people who work in data science these days majored in data science since that major wasn't offered before. [/quote]

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