Most prestigious undergrad major??
What are people's thoughts? I would say anything vocational (business, engineering) is automatically prole.
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Classic non-target answer.
The true prestigious major is art history.
To be clear I'm saying business and engineering are NOT prestigious. Truly prestigious majors are things like art history, classics, etc.
Whoops. The word "prole" went right over my head.
Silly non-target me forgot my reading of 1984. (As well as the actual definition)
Wouldn't it just be history? All the Harvard good old boys in banking from the 80s were history guys
Definitely the traditionally "useless" majors. If you can major in one of those, and still land BB IB, then you have a lot going for you.
Does it Make you feel insecure that you paid hundreds of thousands to study art history and became a shitty banker, while that non target business student is top-bucket and landed in a elite pe firm?
I'm going to school for 55k over 4 years and majoring in finance at a semi- target. Cringe.
art history or classics majors probably smoother than your average STEM majors with clients and that's why they get the job
Philosophy and Art history
film and media studies
@ NYU Tisch
latin gender and sexuality studies
Library Studies from the University of Phoenix
xxx
Did you just try to use a hashtag on here?
African American studies
In the UK, Oxford PPE/Classics.
Oxford Classics is a strong contender for most prestigious in the world.
This profile, while also being in the main boat for the men's open-weight 8 (or the coxswain on the men's team, if you're a woman), is peak giga-Chadwick.
Christopher Hitchens says hello.
Latin even though it's dead
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Physics or any subcategory of physics. Everyone knows you’re smart if you’re majored in Physics
Smart and semi autistic, yes.
Also speaking from personal experience, physics people smell bad, had 2 as roommates before. My opinion could be biased tho as we grew to hate our guts after 6 months.
What about chemical engineering?
Solid choice. But still, BS in Physics with an emphasis in Quantum Computing.... from CalTech
Egyptology - Brown
What you study: Students “explore the histories, languages, cultures and sciences of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and their neighbors” and “will be exposed to the critical study of the ancient cultures of these regions (ca. 3400 B.C.E.–100 C.E.) using the tools of archaeology, epigraphy, and historical inquiry.”
Example courses: Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth-making in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Babylonian Magic and Medicine, Ancient Scientific Texts: Akkadian, Archaeology and Text
Imagine at a cocktail party when someone asks what you're studying and you respond by lowering your champagne flute and saying ...
"Babylonian Magic"
just wow right ... such prefffffftige
underwater basketweaving at MIT baby
whatever major that lets you take fly fishing as a class
Smart with regards to pure raw intellect is any hard science (Biology, Physics, etc...not Environmental Studies or some BS like that), Engineering, Philosophy (hit or miss), etc.
WASP/White Privilege major: Political Science
Saying you majored in economics is like saying your hobby is traveling.
Dope hobby and dope major tho
Trying to sneak biology in the hard sciences...
real estate investment
museum studies. direct FT to Guggenheim
"Ya bro im interning with Gugg this summer"
I think you boost your profile significantly by double majoring (1 hard, 1 soft). Always impressed by Finance/Art History or Physics/Drama or weird combos like that. It shows you have varied interests but recognize the value of time and the effort it takes to explore those interests.
Or that a teenage autist read a message akin to yours and marched right over to the registrar’s office to double up
See post below.
I've been thinking of getting a minor in Drama in addition to my major in Finance. Do you think this is as good as double majoring? I've been weighing the opportunity costs that even a minor in Drama (it's more time intensive than people think) could have.
If you are passionate about it and ok with spending the time go for it. Will be worth it
lacrosse
"Yeah, I play lacrosse"
I know 90% of this thread is satire, so I'll up it with ironically not being satirical, unironically.
Economics. The modern intellectuals. This major unlocks your potential and access to the top echelon of jobs in any industry. Lobbyists, hedge funds, private equity, investment banking, the "money printer go BRRRR", consulting, research, and bar-tending...the list can go on! no pigeonholing here!
Some of the most intelligent people were/are economists - Friedman, Mao, Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez...all pinnacle examples of individuals who benefited the world greatly with their contributions to theory and government policies.
Anyone who says otherwise is a spreadsheet monkey drone who can't understand anything beside money or graphs --- all which economists invented. In-fact, without the economy, things like civilization wouldn't exist.
Checkmate, financebros.
Not to get political, but this guy just said Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was one of the most intelligent people on Earth.
Bartenders are the most intelligent politicians. TrueFax
yeah that's a major yikes. probably a fellow alum from the diploma factory which AOC came.
She is our future president, you're just INTIMIDATED by the idea of a WOMAN being in charge because of your FRAGILE TOXIC MALE PRIVILEDGE.
uh what has AOC done for political theory?
Photo ops at the border wall, obviously. I honestly wouldn't trust my tax dollars with anyone OTHER THAN past bartenders TBQH
Uhh, no, not even close. And I say this as someone with an Econ degree.
There are people answering this based on different axes of prestige and Economics is not really the top of any of those axes, even if it does okay in some of them.
If prestige is having the levers of culture, then humanities are superior (especially since humanities signal class by not caring about post-graduation earning prospects).
If prestige is cozying up to the levers of power, then law is superior.
If prestige is helping people, then medicine is superior.
If prestige is a show of intellectual rigor, then Math, Physics, or another hard science is superior.
If prestige is expected earning outcome, then Engineering is superior.
If prestige is what tells the best story, then straight up dropping out is superior.
Honestly, Economics doesn't come close on most of these axes. Economics is incredibly useful, practical, and advisable - which almost definitionally makes it commonplace and un-prestigious.
See IYI: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577
Sorry to reply to my own goddamn post, but I thought of a way more succinct way of explaining it:
Economics is only perceived to be prestigious if you are obsessing over earning potential.
Obsessing over earning potential is a middle class value.
Middle class values are given zero weight in matters of prestige.
QED.
Aerospace engineering (or some sort of physics) and classics double major with the pre-med track achieved, minor in economics or international relations but no intention to pursue a career in it. Full fluency in a language, completely learned at school.
Least prestigious majors: Finance and Poly Sci
Studio Art, Philosophy, or Classics at an ultra preftige liberal arts college (Williams, Amherst). You can't really top that.
If you don't land into IB or consulting what alternate options do classic/art history majors from an Ivy have?
teaching classics/art history
full-time trustafarian
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I’d have a ton of respect for math and physics majors.
I majored in SEX ED
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