By: Kevin Brawley
When students across the nation, or the world for that matter, are applying for college, they have to make an important decision: what do they want to major in? This is a very important question that takes serious thinking. Some people base their major decision on which major will give them the best career in the future. Karin Fischer and David Glenn, from the Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote an article called 5 College Majors On the Rise that identifies and describes five majors that are now emerging at colleges.
The five majors are as follows: Service Sciences, Health Informatics, Computational Science, Sustainability, and Public Health. Service Sciences studies ways to "improve productivity and increase innovation." Health informatics will teach students going into health-care how to use electronic databases. Computational science teaches "the use of computer modeling and simulation to advance other fields." Sustainability teaches the science behind being environmentally sustainable. This major is along the lines of environmental engineering. Lastly, Public Health teaches more epidemiology and less of actual medicine in an undergraduate setting.
These five majors are on the rise because they are all based around the most rapidly growing fields today. However, most college students probably do not have that in mind when choosing their major. Unfortunately, some choose the easiest major just so they can go through college carefree. Others choose their majors to follow in the footsteps of relatives, or it is predetermined by their parents which major they want their son or daughter to pursue at university. Then, there are some students that go through three years of college to finally figure out the right major for them. Fortunately, in the end, a lot of students choose their majors based on what they are passionate about and feel like they can contribute the most to the advancement of the field.
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