Deciding your college major is an important task, but it need not be overwhelming. The USP staff has found that students who approach finding a major as an active process requiring their time, energy, and attention are generally successful. No one has a crystal ball to tell you what major is right for you — you have to find that out for yourself.

Listed below are some suggestions to assist you with your search:

• Purdue’s Center for Career Opportunities (CCO) Web site offers helpful information to help you find a major that is right for you. Click here to visit the Center for Career Opportunities.

• Perhaps your interests are focused in a certain area (i.e. science, computers, art, etc.) but you aren’t sure what majors Purdue offers in that area. Click here to link to an Office of Admissions Web site that organizes Purdue’s 220+ majors by college/school, career interest area, or personal characteristics .

• Some students have a hard time relating their interests to specific majors. They know what they like to do (and not do), but connecting those likes/dislikes to majors and careers is difficult. Click here to go to a chart that can help connect you to majors, careers, and even Purdue student organizations.

• GS 119 (Introduction to Academic Programs at Purdue) is a one-credit, pass/no-pass course offered every fall and spring semester at Purdue. Taking the class is a great way to learn about Purdue’s 12 colleges and schools and the majors offered. Download information about GS 119. Most presentations have been video taped and are available for viewing through the Course Reserves at the Hicks Undergraduate Library.

• College/School websites contain academic major information. Select the college/school of interest or "Academic Catalog" under Colleges and Schools.

• Knowing the major that interests you and finding it on Purdue’s Web site are two different things. Click here to a get to an academic advisors’ Web page that has links to the plans of study (list of required courses, etc.) for each of Purdue’s majors.

• Want information about salaries that graduates in different majors earn right out of college?  Purdue’s Center for Career Opportunities (CCO) contacts graduates to find out, and the results of the most recent survey (PDF) are available.

• Wondering what kind of careers and jobs a specific major prepares you for? The links below will help you answer that question:
  

  
  https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Student/Series_Major.shtml
  http://www.albion.edu/careerdev/Majors2/majors/default.html
  www.cas.muohio.edu/advising/Majors/toc.html
  www.udel.edu/CSC/mrk.html
  www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors