These Are The College Majors With The Smartest Students
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The report includes data on SAT scores by intended major for the college-bound class of 2013. We've taken the liberty of ranking majors based on these scores, which are the best commonly available proxy for intelligence. Although the results are somewhat limited, seeing as different majors require different skills and anyway the SAT is not a perfect test, some notable trends emerge.
Multi/interdisciplinary studies students have the highest combined scores, which makes sense since they need a wide array of talents and are likely to be either ambitious double majors or intellectual scholars.
Physical science majors (physics, chemistry, etc.) have the second highest combined scores; naturally they tend to be serious students, bravely embarking into fields where B.S. is not an option.
A large group of undecided students beat out the similarly ruminative Philosophy majors by one point, claiming the tenth highest combined score.
As we go down the ranking of combined scores, there are increasingly technical majors - these students aren't wasting their time with a liberal arts education.
Here's a ranking by combined scores:
Based on data from research.collegeboard.org
Now, a ranking of majors by critical reading score. Naturally, the humanities subjects rise higher, but check out that still-impressive score for physical science majors:
Based on data from research.collegeboard.org
Next, a ranking of majors by math scores - and the winner is ... math majors.
Based on data from research.collegeboard.org
Finally, a ranking of majors by writing score. Multi/interdisciplinary scores win here too.
Based on data from research.collegeboard.org
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