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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If posters could share their child’s major, I would be grateful. I’m so sorry the market is terrible and kids aren’t finding jobs or are having them rescinded. It’s scary. I have a HS student thinking about college, and I don’t know what to tell them in terms of their tentative major choice in STEM or what majors might be better. My kid has zero interest in healthcare and would be terrible at it. [/quote]

My son just graduated from Virginia Tech with a major in Computational Modeling & Data Analytics, that's their "data science" major. He starts a data scientist job next month in DC. It's at the firm he interned with last summer (and got his initial security clearance then too). He says most of the people he knows who graduated with jobs got them from last year's internships. But he did have a 2nd offer from the company he worked with on his capstone project.

What helped with the internship was doing an on-campus program where he worked with several professors on data analytics to support their research. Through those, he learned industry current tools to work on a variety of real programs, giving him solid experience to talk about in interviews. Also, he took a lighter load junior year fall so he could really focus on internship applications, essentially applying to internships was like a part time job. He accepted an internship by winter break.

In a world where even "entry level" jobs seems to be asking for a couple years experience, the most important thing IMO when evaluating colleges is determining how the school will build real experience into the education- research programs, capstone projects, industry partnerships, etc.[/quote]

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