This influence is universally significant because the majority of people will at some point experience the effects of the major the chose in college on their career, which is why it is surprising that more research has not been conducted in the past. We measured college Major Choice in terms of the generalized options students have to choose from to study such as: History, sociology, biology, engineering, education, etc and categorized them depending on whether they are seen as majors that will feed directly into a high paying job (Engineering) or whether getting your BA in that subject is just a first step into the work force (sociology). Other researchers have measured College Major Choice differently such as Yingyi Ma (2009) who’s study of influences on patterned college major choice by gender, race/ethnicity, and nativity measures the dependent variable more broadly within four categories: Technical, Life/Health, Business, social, and
This influence is universally significant because the majority of people will at some point experience the effects of the major the chose in college on their career, which is why it is surprising that more research has not been conducted in the past. We measured college Major Choice in terms of the generalized options students have to choose from to study such as: History, sociology, biology, engineering, education, etc and categorized them depending on whether they are seen as majors that will feed directly into a high paying job (Engineering) or whether getting your BA in that subject is just a first step into the work force (sociology). Other researchers have measured College Major Choice differently such as Yingyi Ma (2009) who’s study of influences on patterned college major choice by gender, race/ethnicity, and nativity measures the dependent variable more broadly within four categories: Technical, Life/Health, Business, social, and