What you major in will influence your career options but it by no means dictates what you have to do. Medical professions such as physicians generally major in biology or chemistry but you can major in anything you want and still get into medical school. In fact, many medical schools look for students majoring in other things to promote diversity. However, there are courses that must be taken in order for students to get into medical school which the science curriculum majors cover whereas arts do not. So a student majoring in art or English or whatever would still have to take the required courses for medical school admittance.

When you apply for a job once you get out of college, the employers look at what your majored in, and see if it matches the job you’re looking for. For example, you won’t get hired as a fashion designer if you majored in biochemistry. So basically, yes, a major does in a way determine your future career. You’ll be focusing most of your attention on that major, so pick it wisely. Different jobs require different experience and have different paychecks, so if you want to check salaries of jobs, go to www.salary.com .

Hi. it is possible to study different majors, but I think we can’t be a doctor and a musician at the same time.There are so much involvement in both and we can only live once.Therefore, we should see what we like most.I wouldn’t choose a major just for the money, since money is not everything and it will come itself if you become a “real” master in your career.You will make it happen only if you believe it and work hard for it.

To be a doctor, you need a doctorate degree..in medicine. To be a chemist you need a major in chemistry. Yes it does determine your fate with money. Majors like philosophy, you might have some options..but like that joke..What does a person with a liberal arts degree ask?

Would you like fries with that? lol

technically, you cna become a doctor or chemist, but i think it would be real hard. since art and doctor classes dont have much in common, you’ll be taking classes that other doctors take. usually working in a field you majored in determines your pay and job stability. if you have a communications degree and you apply for a job in business, you will usually geta lower offer than someone who has a business degree. case in point, me and my friend both applied for the same job, working in the finance department. he had a political science degree and i had a business degree. we both got the job, but my salary is 10k more than his. he was mad when he found out, but when you think about it, i took courses that better prepared me for this line of work, while they had to train him for a longer time. we both want to go to grad school, and if he wants to get the same grad degree as me, he would have to take a bunch of classes i took as an undergrad. he pretty much wasted four years of college to get a degree and will spend 3 more years getting his business grad while ill spend a year and a half.

You can certainly always pursue a career that is different from you college major. However, you will increasingly find that the better paying careers tend to require specialized training. That is, you cannot legally become a doctor without going through medical school.

well, you have to study those subjects you wish to pursue. If you want to be a Doctor, you need to go to medschool after college. If you want to be a chemist you have to study chemistry. You can always double major.

it can, but not always. Some people wind up doing something completely different then what they majored in in college. It all depends on what happens and what you choose.

But all in all, do what makes you happy

Buckminster Fuller made three separate fortunes in three different fields. It is not conceivable that some one can learn several different things during a lifetime. I know a man in SoCal who is a lawyer and a doctor. His brother is a good friend of mine. His brother is a paleontologist, an archaeologist and an accomplished musician playing several different instruments.

Sort of, I majored in English Education, and now I’m an English teacher.

The only way you change technical careers is by going back to college and going for a new degree.