1. Engineering majors
In recent years, students studying in the United States are keen to choose to focus on practice, adapt to a wide range of high salary engineering and business majors, such as electrical engineering. This is because the program involves many fields of communication, computer, and information industry, and is practical and widely applicable. Graduates of this major can easily develop in various enterprises, so it is highly favored. Chinese students have always been praised by U.S. universities for their solid foundation and serious learning attitude, and most Chinese students have top academic performance. And they play an important role in research.
There are many specialties in the field of engineering, such as aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, etc., all of which are worthy of consideration, and graduates in these fields have good employment prospects. The United States currently trains 70,000 engineers each year, far from meeting the needs of society, and the demand for engineering and technical personnel in various industries is on the rise. Due to economic development and technological advances, many emerging industries and non-traditional industries also have a great demand for engineers, especially highly educated engineering graduates, which has led to recent years, the number of graduate students applying for engineering has been growing continuously.
2. Computing
Computer science is a systematic discipline that encompasses a wide variety of topics related to computing and information processing, ranging from the abstract analysis of algorithms, formal grammars, and so on, to specific topics such as programming languages, programming, software, and hardware. As a discipline, it is significantly different from, but often confused with, mathematics, computer programming, and software engineering, although there are varying degrees of crossover and coverage between these disciplines. Computer science is a very hot profession, with advanced studies and education, and a choice of jobs. But not everyone is studying it, and different schools will have majors in both Computer
Science and Computer
Engineering, which are essentially two very similar majors, both studying core computer field content such as programming and software development. The most fundamental difference is between (Science) and (Engineering).
Science means to understand the unknown, while Engineering is the original Latin word for invention, and CE students have a good understanding of electronic circuits, hardware design, and other disciplines and the ability to apply them to practical design and engineering purposes. CS students focus on algorithm design, computational performance, and programming languages. Talents with advanced computer skills, such as network architects, database engineers, data analytics and discovery engineers, and advanced software engineers are highly sought after in the market. One can get a handsome salary.
3. Science majors
Simple science majors, such as mathematics, physics and other disciplines, in the process of learning, but the content is relatively boring, learning difficult practical problems, undergraduate graduates in the job market is not in a great advantage, however, these disciplines paved the way for students and good quantitative analysis of the foundation, so that they are more adapted to the later to continue the study of graduate school, but also to the graduate school. There is a wide variety of majors to which one can apply for graduate school. Not only can you continue to study for an advanced degree in your field, but you can also choose statistics, actuarial science, finance, or even apply to business, psychology, sociology, and other liberal arts, because the U.S. liberal arts education is actually very important to the applicant's background in math and statistics.
4. Liberal arts majors
Liberal arts majors include History, English, Literature, Linguistics, and Sociology. Due to the characteristics of the profession employment is difficult, the social demand for such graduates is not very large, in the United States to study these majors of the children's family conditions are better, they generally do not worry about graduating soon after a higher income job, they are in pursuit of a high quality of life status. Therefore, it is highly recommended for those applicants who have a good family background and at the same time love these majors. Because the precious college time can pursue their own passionate field itself is a kind of happiness, in the long run, these majors graduates generally have a very good development in the later stage.
5. Art majors
The art majors such as music and painting are very different from the common majors, which are generally expensive and rarely offer scholarships, unless there is a very outstanding artistic talent, such as Lang Lang, who can successfully enter the program. However, these students generally have very high income and social status after graduation.
6. Government-related majors
Political science, generally not recommended for domestic students. The main reason is that the domestic political system makes it very difficult for students to develop in the domestic political field after graduation. Unless you can obtain U.S. status and integrate into local government agencies. On the contrary, our Taiwan compatriots widely choose this kind of major, such as Harvard Dr. Ma Ying-jeou, Chicago Dr. Lien Chan, Georgetown Dr. Soong Chu-yu. If the students in the country to build a certain political foundation, go abroad to further study gold-plated master's degree, doctoral degree is still very good.
7. Economics
The word economics appeared a long time ago, and at that time, it meant to be the world, governing the country, with some political coloring. Economics is the study of how individuals, governments, businesses, and other organizations make choices in society, and how those choices determine how society's resources are used and distributed. We recommend the economics major as an undergraduate choice of major, very helpful, on the one hand, to help students establish a complete knowledge system, on the other hand, for the later employment and study to make a good preparation. For committed graduate students to study finance, economics or business-related disciplines have a great help. But at the same time pay attention to the pure study of economics is still not good to find a job, only after part-time study of other courses will have more opportunities. Graduate education in economics in the United States is very unique. First of all, many famous universities do not have a master's degree in economics, and most of their economics majors are directly set up as doctoral-level education.
8. Business majors
Business majors are the most popular majors for many parents and students. In recent years, the U.S. education sector has seen a new trend in the rapid development of undergraduate business majors. Business schools have adjusted their curricula to emphasize professional courses, hands-on experience and leadership skills. Business Week regularly publishes rankings of the nation's top business schools. They all follow a rigorous teaching approach, emphasizing economics, statistics, and finance and financial management. They also follow the MBA teaching methodology. Students are motivated to seek internships to increase their work experience.
9. Financial engineering
Financial engineering is a new graduate program in recent years, he has different names in different schools, such as financial mathematics, computational finance. In short, this is a quantitative analysis tools based on the use of mathematics, computer science, the advantage of the characteristics of financial products, especially financial derivatives such as securities, futures, options and other research disciplines. The U.S. financial industry is huge more and more elite to join the financial circle represented by Wall Street. Including our country as an emerging country, this kind of industry has just started, I believe that in the future as the world's largest market, the financial market is indispensable, study this kind of professional for their own development is unlimited.
10. Finance
The financial industry has experienced rapid development, he has been at the top of the industry chain of the planet, a variety of trade activities, mergers and acquisitions, stock issuance are closely related to finance.
With the rapid development of the financial industry, there is a large demand for financial professionals. Many U.S. undergraduate colleges and universities do not offer finance majors. Graduate applications for finance majors are very difficult because everyone knows the future returns. This is when the undergraduate era of the profession has become for the future application of finance graduate students have to consider the premise. A popular choice is to take a double major in math + economics as an undergraduate. Economics paves the way for a body of knowledge related to finance, and math skills, more valued by the U.S. economics and finance. For example, U.S. universities would rather recruit domestic math majors to study finance than admit domestic economics students. Because the mathematics profession has trained students strong logical analysis ability, modeling ability, students are more able to apply mathematical tools to complete quantitative analysis.
11. Accounting
Accounting profession in the country is very concerned about his industry characteristics and pay system is very suitable for the pursuit of stable work, and relatively high income of the population. Some U.S. universities offer accounting majors at the undergraduate level, and most at the graduate level. Accounting majors have a certain employment-oriented, choose a school can not simply look at the school rankings, especially the overall rankings, but to look at the situation of the employer list issued by the employment office of this school.
12. Actuarial
Actuarial science is an emerging profession, belonging to the business discipline, widely used in the insurance industry, funds, securities investment, banking and government departments. Actuaries belong to the senior professionals, actuaries career is known as the "gold collar of the gold collar". An actuary is a person who evaluates the uncertainty of future risk factors. Actuaries are at the center of the insurance company's core departments and have a high level of authority and responsibility. The actuarial profession is usually offered at the graduate level, and he requires a very high level of mathematical ability.
13. Marketing
Marketing is the study of business and sales activities. Marketing is the process of creating, distributing, promoting, and pricing goods, services, and ideas by social organizations to satisfy the conditions of exchange in a dynamic environment. In the United States, due to the implementation of a broad liberal arts and sciences education, the vast majority of schools offer this course of study, while few undergraduate this major, generally in the business school of each school at the graduate level to offer master's and doctoral degrees.
14. Media
The arrival of the information age, the rapid development of the media industry, while the media talent has become both famous and favorable gold-collar class. With the entry of various multinational media, there is an urgent need for a large number of local senior media management talents who are familiar with the mainland market and also have international education background and operation experience. Media majors in the United States are divided into five categories and represent five different career directions, including journalism and media, marketing and advertising media, mass media, media publishing, and creative performance. Media graduate students are widely absorbed by applicants from liberal arts education, but science and engineering also have certain advantages such as mathematical and scientific knowledge can be applied to the later practical work.
15. Double Majors
Many students choose to study double majors (Double
Major) at U.S. universities. Many people in China translate this as a double degree which is inaccurate. In the United States, a DM means that a student obtains a diploma that identifies both subfields of study. In many cases, a student who participates in a joint program with two schools and receives a Degree from each of them is really a dual degree.
The choice of U.S. undergraduate program is something that needs to be determined after one to two years of study in a U.S. university. So when we face the U.S. university, we have to really feel the charm of each kind of professional and different. How to choose a major, you can start from the understanding of the profession, you may want to choose a popular profession.