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Reflecting on your interests, skills, and personality can also help inform your choice of major and potential career paths.  These dynamic assessments/tools can help:

•  "the world's leading career advancement platform"
  Offers a free self-assessments that take about 30mins online.
• Our in Brightspace offers handy reflection worksheets you can do at home ().
• Certified Career Specialists in our office offer two professional assessments free of charge to students and alums
  Email danielle.gallant@uvm.edu to get started on either the:
  • The Strong Interest Inventory to consider how your interests may influence your career choice; OR
  • The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to learn more about your temperament and personality, which can impact career choices.

Looking to declare, change, or reconsider your major? These resources may help. Majors do not necessarily dictate career paths, however figuring out the right program of study is nevertheless an important part of your career journey.

Taking coursework that engages, challenges and inspires will prepare you for success, and help you find the path that's right for you.

1. Explore ����̽̽'s list of majors, minors, and graduate programs.
2. Connect with a Career Interest Group to learn more about how a particular major might translate to a range of diverse career paths.
3. Listen to our to hear from fellow students about their major choices.
4. Check out what alums are doing with the majors you're considering using .
5. Ask friends, family, and fellow students about their interests and what they think you might be good at.
6. Talk to the professors teaching the courses that interest you - they are experts in the field.
7. Be sure to also discuss your plans / interests with your Academic Advisor.

Your major choice is unlikely to be a major mistake.

Consider what you enjoy, what you're good at, and your budding goals, then make a choice; remembering that all careers have multiple points of entry and your major could lead to any number of different jobs.

Doubts are natural.

Choosing or changing a major is a decision that can feel daunting, but we’re here to support you.  Doubts may arise because of a “sophomore slump,” an encounter with a particular professor, or when thinking about potential post-grad opportunities.

Many students change their major one or more times at ����̽̽. 

But do think critically about whether changing your major is what you really need - getting help at the Tutoring Center or joining a new club might be a way to resolve the challenges and doubts you are facing.

Staying in the wrong major can cause unnecessary stress.

While changing majors might seem stressful, by staying with the major you don't like, you may do poorly, leave school dissatisfied with your experiences, or be unprepared for the career you actually want

Ask Yourself...

• Why did you choose your initial major in the first place? Did the reasons make sense then? What has changed?
• What are your concerns with your current major? Are their issues with academic performance? Interpersonal difficulties? Have your interests changed? A mismatch with career goals?
• Will a change of major add an additional semester or year to your undergraduate degree? Will it require some summer school classes? Can you afford the extra time or classes?
• Could you consider a double major? A minor in another area? Might it make sense to consider graduate school to focus on the new interest? Or could you seek skills and knowledge in your new interest area through experiential learning opportunities such as internships, volunteering, or service-learning?

Run a What-If? audit

Degree Works is ����̽̽'s degree audit system offering tools to aid students in tracking their progress toward degree completion. It also allows users to view how changing a major will affect degree progress in an accurate and meaningful way because it reflects the requirements in their own catalogue year. You can run a "What If" audit to see how your courses would apply if you decided to change your major, concentration, minor, or degree program.