3. Switching majors If you got your scholarship based on your major, there’s a chance you could lose that money if you decide to switch majors. There’s nothing wrong with switching majors. It happens more often than you think. But when a scholarship is involved, you might not be able...
With so many students dropping out entirely or switching to non-STEM majors, it is imperative that we reform our teaching practices to confront the drop-out rate in the classroom (Barefoot, 2004). Although not the magic cure-all to the lack of STEM graduates, teaching practices need to ...
Once students have determined a passion, it can be valuable to know which majors are more or less likely to lead to a high salary. Starting salaries for those who graduate with certain bachelor’s degrees, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, can be particularly high. In ...
Crossing over Mastering the Art of Switch Hitting Can Hasten the Rise to the MajorsByline: Jeff Elliott, Times-Union sports writerElliott, Jeff
“__【3】__ Many students picked colleges before majors,only to discover their mistakes a few weeks after arrival on the campus,” said Jiang Xin,20,who was able to switch to electrical engineering and automation from physics.He said that physics graduates had few other options besides going...
“And the facts of the case seem to show that one or the other isn’t true. Either you didn’t have the proper security in place, or you all were asleep at the switch, but it has to be one or the other because of what happened,” he said. ...
They advised us to own at least one big monolingual dictionary to be considered proper English majors. So I own five now (two of them are bilingual dictionaries). By the way, I used to have even more of them but since some of them were duplicates, I donated them at some point. So ...
Physics majors routinely collaborate with classmates when conducting lab experiments, and physics faculty say that this experience prepares students for group projects in the workplace. Individuals with physics degrees also tend to have strong quantitative abilities that make them attractive hires for profi...
There are far more options for what you can do with a music degree than you probably realize. Performing and teaching are the two most common careers in music, but those alone don’t begin to cover what music majors can pursue once they graduate. We’ve linked several of the careers in...
Although the goal of this intervention was not to cause students to become STEM majors, one student, Jessica, did suggest they would change their major because of their changed perceptions: “…and that really influenced me and it made me kind of switch my path to becoming a scientist.” Ot...