College Degree Search Lists 20 Unusual College Majors

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- College Degree Search, a student advocacy service, has released a list of 20 unusual majors offered at colleges throughout the United States. This list was compiled based on the nature of the associated coursework, as well as the number of colleges that offer the programs.

The article is available here: http://www.collegedegreesearch.net/20-unusual-college-majors/

Chad Reigelsperger, the author of the article, comments: "When choosing your course of study, it is important to look beyond the most popular majors and consider more specialized options that can be more interesting, and can provide an upper hand in the job market. Our goal was to compile a list of programs that look beyond the typical college experience and offer more unorthodox options for students."

The list includes seldom-thought-of options ranging from Caribbean Studies and Golf Management to Logic and Reiki.

The full list of majors, and the schools that offer them:

Acoustics
* American University

Animal Breeding
* Lake Erie College
* Purdue University

Caribbean Studies
* City University of New York Brooklyn College
* Columbia University
* Dartmouth College
* Emory University
* Hofstra University
* Pitzer College
* Rutgers
* SUNY
* William Paterson University of New Jersey

Documentary Production
* Burlington College
* College of the Atlantic
* Ithaca College
* Prescott College
* Syracuse University

Golf Management
* Methodist University
* Trine University
* University of Maryland
* University of Wisconsin

Greenhouse Operations
* Purdue University
* SUNY
* University of Maine
* University of Minnesota
* University of Wisconsin

Herbalism
* Bastyr University
* Goddard College

Holocaust Studies
* Keene State College

Juvenile Corrections
* Mitchell College
* University of Central Oklahoma
* University of Great Falls
* University of New Haven
* Westwood College

Knowledge Management
* Framingham State University
* Saint Joseph's University
* Saint Louis University

Licensed Midwifery
* Bastyr University - Washington

Logic
* Carnegie Mellon University
* University of Pennsylvania

Mathematical Biology
* Trevecca Nazarene University
* University of Houston

Meeting and Event Planning
* Endicott College
* Lasell College
* University of Central Florida
* Universidad del Este

Parasitology
* Bowling Green University

Paper Science and Engineering
* Western Michigan University

Reiki
* Goddard College

Resort Management
* Art Institutes International Minnesota
* Coastal Carolina University
* Concord University
* Florida Gulf Coast University
* Globe Institute of Technology
* Green Mountain College
* Lakeland College
* Lyndon State College
* Methodist University
* Paul Smith's College
* Rochester Institute of Technology
* Sierra Nevada College
* SUNY
* University of Minnesota Crookston
* Western State College of Colorado

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