01 August 2024

The top 25 college majors


Data based on 121,000 loan applications between 2016 and 2023, so it's likely not valid to extrapolate the results to all college students.  Not surprising to see Business at the top.  I was curious to see what's at the bottom:


English majors continue their long downward trend, but seem to have rebounded from near oblivion in 2022.  I'll assume the data are mostly meaningless, so I'll file this under curiosities.

3 comments:

  1. Too bad the data is all so recent. It'd be more interesting to watch the changes from, say, 1960.

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  2. Also very curious about this over time. I was in college during 9/11 and my school's political science majors seemed to triple overnight.

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