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How will changing my major prolong my graduation time?

When I applied to college I was a political science major, but now I'm thinking about changing my major to finance. I want to change it but I am scared that changing my major will set me back another year or so. #college-major #finance #political-science #switches

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Daniel’s Answer

This is a good question for your university's academic advisers.


It really depends on your specific Uni/school, how far in you are, and what specific courses you've taken. If you're 1 year in, and most of the courses you've already taken are sort of general education requirements, then it might not add much time. If you're 3 years in and have taken almost exclusively poli sci courses that aren't required at all for fin, then it might add quite a bit of time.


It is difficult to give you a specific answer without more detail.


It is entirely possible that it is easy to figure this out from your college's website. For an example, look at UMich:


https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/degrees-requirements/academic-policies/credits-and-grade-point-average.html


You need 120 credits total.


Poli sci requires what appears to be 38 credits of poli sci (30 of which have to be 3rd or 4th year courses):


https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/majors-minors/political-science-major.html


So for example if you were in UMich and 1st or 2nd year, at most it'll set you 8 credits back, IF the finance degree doesn't require too many 1st & 2nd year courses.


Finally, another consideration is that if you're at a bigger university, you may need to apply to switch colleges (which may not be difficult, just extra process).

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R. Scott’s Answer

Best answer is to go ASAP to speak with counselor at the business school. But generally speaking you will have to take some business classes you didn't take as a Freshman, like pre-calculas, so you are behind. But, you can take classes over the summer to catch up. I think up to 4 classes per summer, or 12 hours.

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