Need advice on choosing a minor for my psychology degree, please help.

stroopsaidwhat · 1 year

Statistics would also be a good minor. It will help you land a grad school position later and give you quantitative skills that a business would appreciate.

JEdwards · 1 year

How about economics?

Bounded rationality, various cognitive biases, and other aspects of economic behavior fit well with your psychology major and with business.

Burnage · 1 year

Maths, statistics or computer science are all excellent to pair with psychology. Economics and philosophy are also good fits, but personally I'd recommend my initial three options.

socrateswasabadass · 1 year

I'm a psych major with a minor in philosophy, I find the two to be wonderfully complementary

ender17 · 1 year

I've heard from advisors at my university (UIUC) that it's best to pick a specific minor, because psychology is kind of a broad, general major. For example, it would be better to get a Spanish minor than a Sociology minor, because this gives you more specific skills to offer a future employer -- in the opinion of the psyc advisor at the 4th best psyc program in the country.

My personal opinion is to be sure that you actually LIKE the minor you choose. It's great that you're choosing a minor with an eye to your career, but be sure that you will be interested in and enjoy the courses needed for it as well.

nschonbe · 1 year

pick something you're interested in. don't spend more time than you have to taking classes that you have no interest in if the only reason that you're taking them is to land a better job. with that being said, if you already speak semi fluent spanish, go with the business minor, and then if you have the opportunity brush up on your spanish skills in a spanish speaking country.

lingling007 · 1 year

i'm a psychology major with a double minor in sociology and criminal justice. However since you plan on going into business after you graduate, I think the the stats/econ suggestions are very reasonable.

beardedrabbit · 1 year

As others have said, stats/econ would be awesome.

Me? I'm hoping my marketing minor will be somewhat useful alongside my psych degree (going into my Junior year).

AFDIT · 1 year

sociology?

more respected than, say philosophy and more likely to land you a job (I also like the economics / stats suggestions too)

lust4life · 1 year

Fast food management. It's where you will end up working anyway with a psychology degree.

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