Single Discipline vs. Multi Disciplines. Which One is More Attractive?

It becomes more popular for universities to offer undergraduate programs with double majors or even triple majors in recent years. Does it mean that single discipline is no longer suitable for us? Let us reveal this mystery together?

Program Trend in 2020

During the pandemic, we are able to identify the new major comes out, i.e. business analytics. At the very beginning, it is a fast-track master degree offers by several top universities in the US and the UK. It only takes 9 months to 1.5 year to complete. The raise of this program was due to the fact that most of the companies required talents helping them to analyse the data for a new consumer behavior and turnaround strategy. The most surprised phenomenon happened in the enrolment of the program, i.e. almost 70% of the students were from non-computer science background. And almost all students mentioned they would like to equip analytical skill set for catering their company needs.

Next Trend for the Future

From the current trend, it is not hard for us to foresee that it will require students to be equipped with different skill sets to solve the complicated social problems or issues nowadays. It is quite hard for us to survive with the skills in only one specific major. For example, nowadays it is almost a must for students to have a personal project on their CV. And you feel that the project requires you to use knowledge from different majors to complete.

Ten Most Popular College Majors in 2020-2030
1.    Business (Job Growth Rate: 8%)
2.    Health Profession (Job Growth Rate: 16%)
3.    Social Science (Job Growth Rate: 8%)
4.    Engineering (Job Growth Rate: 6%)
5.    Biomedical Science (Job Growth Rate: 5%)
6.    Psychology (Job Growth Rate: 8%)
7.    Communication & Journalism (Job Growth Rate: 14%)
8.    Visual and Performing Arts (Job Growth Rate: 4%)
9.    Computer & Information Sciences (Job Growth Rate: 13%)
10.    Education (Job Growth Rate: 10%)
** Source: http://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/most-popular-college-majors/

Majors and Practices

It is very true that you need to search for your passion and interests to pick the right major in the college. At the same time, you need to be very careful when you try to figure out what you want to pursue in the future as you might mis-interpret your interests. I had a lot of experiences that students told me their passion then I could figure out they had mis-interpret their own passion by mistakes. For example, a student told me that he is interested in Metaverse so he would like to pursue Computer Science major. After the chat, he realised he likes the mathematical concept behind rather than programming and he doesn’t like coding at the first place. Although you need to pick one major, it’s also not hard to see that it requires multiple disciplinary knowledge to solve one issue.
If you don’t know whether you are 100% certain on your passion, please feel free to visit me and have a chat.

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