By the way, I found this article while trying to research the popularity of Urban Planning as a college major in India.
Computer science has gotten a lot of attention as a college major with one of the best job prospects, but in the Georgetown study, it comes out as roughly equivalent to journalism.
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Into this morass stepped Herbig, a college French major who retains the polished manners of her Louisville, Ky. upbringing.
Blackburn, a math major in college, brings "a lot of knowledge, " Boley said.
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It meant Paterno no longer holds the record for most wins by a major college coach.
Kahn started out in college as a botany major, but gave up when he saw the three-inch-thick textbooks filled with Latin names.
As college is a major life stage for our consumer target (guys, 18-24 year old), we knew that we needed to be there with him creating cool and relevant experiences that engage him in a unique way.
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Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old English major at Barnard College in New York, and Justin Lambert, a 20-year-old nursing major at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, are two cancer patients in remission who helped with the project.
"I was ecstatic, " says Straub, 21, a communications major at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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In college, as a philosophy major enamoured by the Transcendentalists, I made my first pilgrimage to Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass.
Working 12-hour days stacking 18-gallon totes 30 high wasn't entirely what she bargained for as a public relations major in college.
At the same time, the tax-form booklet mailed to most of the state's taxpayers failed to mention a major deduction for college tuition.
For higher education, the administration is responding to years of stagnant support for grants to lower-income college students with a major increase in Pell Grants, which go to the neediest students.
The actress "is so pale and not moving in there that she looks like she's dead, " said Robbie von Kampen, 20, a philosophy major at Bard College, north of New York City.
You were a ponytailed aviation major in college?
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The 11 conference commissioners in the Bowl Championship Series and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick last month agreed to explore the possibility of a four-team playoff, which would be a first for major-college football.
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Like most parents from his hardscrabble background, he was simply happy that his son was getting a college education, as if a college education, of whatever kind, in whatever major, would magically do the kid some good.
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"Since the beginning, there's been anger, frustration, sadness and fear, but we've been working toward a concentrated effort toward change, " said Eliza Diop, 20, a politics and Africana Studies major who serves on the college student senate and is a resident of the Afrikan Heritage House, which offers programs focused on the African diaspora, according to the college's website.
College loans have become a major burden for millions of Americans, dragging students deep into debt before they even get started in the workplace.
Yojiro Konno is a senior sociology major at Grinnell College, IA. He is interested in public policy and is currently an intern at the Center for Security Policy.
Though I did know the basics of this from my college days as a US history major (before I turned to biochemistry), I found the similarity of the rhetoric quite surprising.
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Additionally, this information would help already enrolled college students pin down a major field of study, something that most find difficult as evidenced by statistics suggesting that at least half of students change their majors at least once.
It is no secret that college football has become a major driver of alumni support, major fund-raising, university marketing and revenue generation at almost all of the major schools and at many of the mid-level and smaller colleges.
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The study, at London's Goldsmiths College, found this had a major impact and could threaten "just outcomes".
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"I was a history major for three years in college, and it makes me wonder why we don't learn more about it in America, " he says.
An Iona College English major who got a master's in business administration from New York University at night, Greifeld spent much of his career selling computer systems for processing and clearing trades.
It will also require concerted focus on the retention of STEM majors during the initial years of college because, today, fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.
The idea of a small school nabbing a top coach from a major sports factory would be unthinkable in most other forms of college sports.
One big reason it ranks so high, says Claffey, is a company policy focused on hiring smart people out of college, regardless of their major, who the company thinks would be a cultural fit.
It's home to one of the top colleges in the U.S., Wellesley College, and is close to a major metropolitan area known for its culture and high property values.
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