Popular majors or areas where college students receive their bac

来源: secretariate 于 2021-10-06 13:37:31 [档案] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次 (13136 bytes)

I have pulled out graduation outcome data from a few major colleges. These colleges are the ones this forum is most interested about. This data is for Class 2019. I compared a few schools for Class 2020. The data is remarkably close for each program area. One interesting phenomenon to see is how hot computer scicence major becomes for the top schools including IVYs. I will post more for CS later.

We all know college admission officers try to form a well rounded class with the idea that some applicants will fill ceertain areas. When college freshmen entering the colleges first time, they have all sorts of ideas what they want to study. By the time they graduate, most are still attracted to certain pouplar programs.

For MIT as an example, its top1 programs are in engineering, the top2 area is computer science and top3 program area is in Math & Stats. it is not surprising. What it is surprising is how concentrated the students are in pursuing their undergraudate studies. MIT has 80% of their graduates majoring in the top 3 areas.

COLLEGES	Top 1	Top 2	Top3	Top 1	Top 2	Top3	Total

Notre Dame	Business	Engineering	Social Sci	29.8%	17.2%	10.2%	57.1%
USC	Business	Visual Art	Social Sci	24.7%	12.4%	11.4%	48.4%
Northeastern	Business	Engineering	Social Sci	24.6%	17.4%	12.1%	54.2%
Tulane	Business	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	24.5%	15.8%	10.3%	50.5%
BostonU	Business	Com, Journal	Social Sci	22.0%	14.9%	12.8%	49.7%
UPenn	Business	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	19.6%	14.7%	10.6%	44.9%
Emory	Business	BioL & BioM	Social Sci	19.5%	16.2%	14.9%	50.6%
WaShU	Business	Engineering	Social Sci	14.5%	14.8%	13.1%	42.3%
Stanford	Comp Sci	Engineering	MultiDis	18.8%	18.9%	15.1%	52.8%
MIT	Engineering	Comp Sci	Math & Stat	39.3%	32.6%	7.8%	79.7%
Princeton	Engineering	Social Sci	Biol & BioM	29.4%	18.2%	10.4%	58.0%
CMU	Engineering	Comp Sci	Math & Stat	26.0%	12.3%	10.8%	49.2%
Rice	Engineering	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	22.7%	15.1%	8.9%	46.7%
JHU	Engineering	BioL & BioM	Social Sci	22.5%	17.9%	14.2%	54.6%
Cornell	Engineering	Business	BioL & BioM	16.7%	14.4%	12.5%	43.6%
Rochester	Engineering	Social Sci	Health Sci	16.3%	12.9%	12.4%	41.7%
Michigan	Engineering	Social Sci	Comp Sci	15.9%	11.7%	10.7%	38.4%
Georgetown	Social Sci	Business	MultiDis	37.6%	19.3%	7.6%	64.6%
Dartmouth	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	Engineering	34.1%	9.0%	9.2%	52.2%
UChicago	Social Sci	Biol & BioM	Math & Stat	33.8%	10.0%	9.3%	53.1%
Vanderbilt	Social Sci	Engineering	MuiltDis	32.1%	15.9%	11.9%	59.9%
Harvard	Social Sci	Biol &BioM	Math & Stat	31.2%	12.5%	10.2%	53.9%
Yale	Social Sci	Biol & BioM	History	27.3%	10.7%	10.1%	48.1%
Columbia	Social Sci	Enginering	Comp Sci	27.2%	15.9%	11.3%	54.5%
UCLA	Social Sci	BioL & bioM	Psychology	26.4%	16.1%	11.0%	53.4%
Tufts	Social Sci	Engineering	BioL & BioM	25.4%	12.6%	11.6%	49.6%
Berkeley	Social Sci	Engineering	BioL & BioM	20.2%	10.8%	9.9%	40.9%
Northwestern	Social Sci	Com,Journal	Engineering	18.9%	17.0%	16.1%	52.0%
Duke	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	Engineering	18.8%	15.3%	15.4%	49.5%
Brown	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	Comp Sci	18.0%	10.8%	10.8%	39.7%
Virginia	Social Sci	Engineering	Business	15.8%	12.6%	8.3%	36.6%
UNC-CH	Social Sci	BioL & BioM	Com, Journal	14.0%	10.5%	10.9%	35.4%
NYU	Visual Art	Social Sci	Business	18.4%	14.3%	13.3%	46.1%
NYU	Visual Art	Social Sci	Business	18.4%	14.3%	13.3%	46.1%