You Majored In What

Selecting a college major can be a difficult decision but it's not one you have to make on your own. Take our assessment to help determine what you should major in. Major is the first field officer rank in the United States Army, ranked above Captain but below Lieutenant Colonel. Majors usually serve as specialized executive or operations officers for battallion-sized unit of 300 to 1,200 soldiers, but they may also be found leading specialized companies, such as Service Support and Special Operations units, or serving as staff officers in high-level.

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Finding a major can be tough.
That's why we created the College Major Assessment. In 15-minutes, the program will recommend your best-fit majors that match your academic achievement, aptitude, unique interests, and preferences.

'I was undecided what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. After completing the assessment, I was able to find my list of majors to talk with my advisor. We were able to sign up for classes, found a student group to join, and discussed what I needed to do to graduate in 4 years.'

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For Students

The College Major Assessment recommends your top ten best-fit majors. Finding your major will help select the right college and complete your degree on time. Start now to find your major. This program is free for students.

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Online tool for high school counselors, principals, and teachers to help students find a major, college, and career. Create a free high school account for the student assessment and be able to access their results.

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For Students

What should you major in? Complete the free 15-minute assessment and find your best-fit list of majors, careers, and college matches.
If you are undecided or not sure if your current major is the right fit, complete the assessment to explore all your opportunities. More than 80% of college students change their major at least once in college. MyMajors can help give clarity to your uncertainities.

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For Colleges & Universities

Colleges face three major problems: recruiting best-fit students, retaining them, and graduating them on time. Using web-based assessment technology and artificial intelligence, MyMajors matches students to their best-fit majors at your college. The result is that students engaging in the right majors on your campus enroll, persist, and graduate in four-years at up to 22% higher rates than the national average.
We are not a traditional assessment.
The customized program leverages an algorithm, backed by the NSF, to match students to your specific majors. Students can learn about your unique programs, career outcomes, and connect with resources on campus. Faculty and staff can be notified as students complete the program and alerted with key data to help students persist on campus.
MyMajors can make an immediate impact in admissions, orientation, first-year advising, changing majors, career services, and retention and graduation initiatives.
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MyMajors assists colleges and universities from small to large, public to private, community colleges, religious colleges, and HBCU and HACU institutions. Custom programs are set up based on each institutions programs, philosophy, and process.

Impact on Retention and Graduation Rates

Students who complete the MyMajors assessment have higher graduation and retention rates than the national average. Helping students find a major can help recruit the right student and help them stay on track to graduate.

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Nationally, only 39% of students receive a degree in four years.*
Students with the right academic plan will select the right college and complete their degree on time. A study conducted through the National Student Clearinghouse found that MyMajors students had a 13.8% higher retention rate than the national average. Students completed their degree in four years at an 11.3% higher rate. Hispanic (11.6% higher) and African American (20.9% higher) students both had higher four year graduation rates than the national average.
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For High Schools

School Counselors and Administrators can create an account and help students find a major, college, and career. We create a subdomain for your high school to access the program, and you can view their results to have better college and career advising sessions. Utilize the majors assessment in a school-wide 'Major Day' to help students proactively explore their options before they apply to colleges.

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'MyMajors introduces new options which encourages the student to explore new areas that they may never have considered or even knew existed. Students find MyMajors easy to use and highly accurate and their academic advisors rely on the results to guide their students through the most important decision they will make in college.'

'I love the option of being able to access the results myself in order to have more effective conversations with my students.'

'It was developed after years of compiling data on what it takes to succeed in different fields of study. A student's responses to questions regarding personal interests, temperaments, value systems and academic history are matched to those majors where they are most likely to find success and satisfaction.'

As part of our summer professional development, @kimyeomans and I chose to read and discuss Katharine Brooks’ You Majored In What. Our program, Cross Campus Advising, works primarily with students who are trying to decide whether or not to change their major, as well as “undeclared” students who are exploring their academic options. We decided to read You Majored In What because we are always looking for new ideas and strategies for approaching the major exploration process with our students.

I tweeted an invite to join us and have a core group of folks planning to be part of the discussion, but we are posting our discussion questions here so that all those who are interested in participating in the conversation can follow along and/or contribute, regardless of whether you’ve read the book or not. Please feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section below, or respond to someone else’s comment.

Chapter 1 – A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings and You Find a Job: Chaos and Your Career Plans

1. Brooks claims that students often feel pressure to be on a linear career path (where a certain major leads to a certain career). How do you see this impacting the students at your institution? Do you think this is becoming a more prominent mindset, or is it giving way to more open-minded major and career exploration? Why?

2. How can we challenge students to pursue majors that they are genuinely interested in while helping them keep their end goals in mind?

Chapter 2 – Connecting the Dots: Uncovering the Power of Your Wanderings

1. Have you ever used a “Wandering Map” (or similar activity) with students? How did you facilitate this and how did you work with the student to make meaning from the activity?

2. How do you help students identify the common themes in their life without doing a set activity like a Wandering Map?

Chapter 3 – Mental Wanderings: Your Mind Can Take You Anywhere or Nowhere

1. The idea of “shaping your right mind” is key to Brooks’ ideas about major and career exploration. She emphasizes recognizing challenges and turning them into opportunities, and includes the following quote: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” (Wayne Dyer). What do you do with students to help cultivate positive thinking while maintaining a realistic view of current circumstances and future possibilities?

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Chapter 4 – Wandering Beyond Majors and Minors: Make Your Education Relevant to Any Employer

You Majored In What

1. How do you help students to focus less on the grades they’ve earned and more on the knowledge/skills/experiences they’ve gained when looking for the relevance of their coursework?

2. Once they’ve made a decision to move forward with a particular major, students must learn to embrace their choice and be able to articulate how it will contribute to their future success. What can we do to help them gain this perspective and be confident in their choice?

Thanks in advance for your participation! We will be discussing these four chapters over the next two weeks, and new questions on Chapters 5-7 will be posted during the week of 7/25.

Majored Syn

Brooks, K. (2009). You majored in what: Mapping your path from chaos to career. New York: Penguin.