Good major in college for a bais yaakov girl

Ok, how about Ancient Assyrian Archaeology?

Whatever you do, don’t go for English. Or Creative Writing. I think you should go for accounting, it’s a safe job.

Now seriously: If Touro has a major in it, it’s probably fine for a BY girl. Lots of BY girls go there. So you can pretty much be anything.

If you want to be REALLY safe, you can major in Judaic Studies.

Writersoul’s questions are good.

“Ancient Assyrian Archaeology?”

This may have been thought of as a joke, but in fact it should be taken seriously. The language of the Assyrians was a Semitic cognate language to Hebrew, with much shared vocabulary, so this should be a natural for Jews to explore. There are thousands of untranslated Assyrian documents in the British museum alone; any one might turn into a doctoral dissertation.

Good luck!

Charlie

How about graphic design…you seem to like art. You don’t need more than a bachelors for that.

You could apply for financial aid. B”H I am fully on financial aid. Its a long and annoying process but it pays off at the end when you are not paying a penny for college.

You might want to browse the Bureau of Labor Statistics career website. It gives basic information about numerous careers, and also forecasts job prospects over the next decade.

There are relatively few majors which translate directly into a decent job post-graduation: teaching, nursing, engineering, computer science, etc. Most of the the major health careers (physician assistant, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, etc.) require at least a master’s, but they pay well and are in high demand.

How about a certificate in early childhood education?

Vogue

Don’t make the mistake off going for a specific degree because everyone else is doing it. Its important to go for something that you are good at and personally enjoy so that you will feel fulfilled in your career.

Accounting is a solid career, as are Physician Assistant, OT, PT, Speech Language Pathologist.

There’s a place called ONet (it’ll be the first site that pops up when you google it ONet) that gives information about different jobs. Tells you what the job entails, what you need to know, what skills and abilities you need to have, what level education you’ll need, wages, employment rates, etc.

No Science & No Math, Do Some Sort Of Art!

writersoul – correct but as you said, there are generic classes toward your BA where you can do ones that focus on the other fields you’d consider, and the most important advice is try to get your feet wet in more than one of them – so even if you’re major in graphic arts and working in that, but you took 2 classes in education or teaching methodology etc, try to get an “in” by subbing from time to time (or as a summer job or whatever) and that way if you ever go that route you’ve 1) gotten experience that you can put on your resume and 2) you’ve proven to yourself you can do it so that’s not a hurdle later, you have confidence in each realm you’re considering…

therapy would be harder but you could take psych courses and find out if there’s some sort of volunteer capacity you could hear people out in, or at least take the prerequisites that you can decide later to go on for a master’s and training fairly easily…

Pick a career and choose a major accordingly. Questions to consider: 1)What do you like doing; 2) Are you planning to supplement a husbands income while raising a family (look for areas where part time jobs abound), OR are you planning to be the primary support of a family while a husband in learning or working in hinuch (look for a job with good pay but some flexibility in hours), OR (and this is highly unlikely) do you know you will not being having children (flexibility in hours are less important)

Majoring in a subject because it is interesting or sound like fun is very expensive. One can always study a subject for fun for free outside of a university.