Compare any two majors.
Choose with clarity.

Search for the first major in one selector and the second in the other — two characters are enough to start searching — then press Compare. The result appears immediately: both majors side by side across nine metrics, with the stronger side highlighted on each. The tool compares two majors at a time, and the same major cannot be picked on both sides.

Nine metrics across four groups. Academic: total credit hours, entry average, and graduation rate. Financial: cost per credit hour. Career: a job-market rating out of 5 and the major’s Holland code. Community: the university that teaches the major, the student rating out of 5, and the number of reviews. On top of that, a credit breakdown shows how the total hours split across university requirements, faculty requirements, program core, program electives, and free electives.

It is a tally, not a recommendation. Of the nine metrics displayed, only five are scored — the ones with a clear better direction: graduation rate, cost per credit (lower is better), job-market rating, student rating, and review count. Total credit hours, entry average, Holland code, and university are shown for comparison but not scored, because higher or lower is not automatically better for those. And leading on more metrics does not make a major right for you — the one metric it lost on may be the one that matters most in your case.

Entry average, cost per credit, graduation rate, and job-market rating are optional fields, and not every major has them filled in. An empty field is never counted as zero, and it awards neither major a win on that metric. If you spot a stale or missing figure, use the “report an error” button next to the major and suggest the correct value — reporting requires signing in.

No. The comparison is free and works entirely without signing up: as a guest you see every metric, the verdict, and the credit breakdown. An account is needed only to write a review of a major or to report inaccurate data.

Four differences decide it in practice: workload (total credit hours and how they split between required and elective courses), admission requirements (the entry average you need), the career path the major opens and the state of its job market, and the aptitudes it demands day to day — maths and analysis, working with people, hands-on fieldwork, or precision and organisation. The comparison gives you numbers for the first three; the Holland code is your signal for the fourth.

Start with the Holland career-interest test before comparing anything. It gives you a three-letter code describing your interests, and when you arrive at the comparison page from your result, majors whose Holland code matches yours are badged in the selector. That way you compare two options that already suit you instead of two arbitrary ones.

Yes. You can compare any two different majors in the directory, whether they sit in the same faculty (civil versus electrical engineering, for example) or in completely different ones. You can also compare the same major at two different universities, since the university is one of the nine metrics shown.

Yes. Every comparison has its own link carrying both major slugs, and the share button copies it for you. Anyone who opens that link lands on the same comparison already loaded, with nothing to re-select.

Comparing majors answers “what should I study?” — study plan, credit hours, career path. Comparing universities answers “where should I study?” — the institution itself. If the two majors you compared belong to different universities, the page also offers a direct link to compare those two universities.