The reason why STEM majors are so hot is not only that it has more employment opportunities, good salaries, and many special benefits of three-year OPT internship time valued by international students!
According to the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and USCIS announced a revision of the scope of STEM majors, which involves the decision to add 8 new professional areas:
The new majors include:
Composite Materials Technology/Technician Materials Science
Demography and Population Studies Demographics
Developmental and Adolescent Psychology
Geospatial Intelligence Geospatial Intelligence Bureau
Institutional Research
Landscape Architecture
Linguistics and Computer Science
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Mechatronics, robotics and automation
What is a STEM major?
STEM is composed of S (science), T (technology), E (engineer), M (mathematics), that is, science, technology, engineering and mathematics four categories of initials, is the US government launched to encourage students to learn these four categories of professional programs, this plan even closely affects the development and progress of society, our mobile phones, computers, VR technology, AI, 5G, are inseparable from STEM majors, its coverage is very wide, In addition to literal majors, biology, physics, agricultural science, animation, multimedia, architecture, urban forestry, horticulture, statistics, data processing, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, aerospace, radar communications, etc.
Financial mathematics, financial engineering, computer science, computer engineering, artificial intelligence, business statistics and other majors also fall under the category of STEM.
Among them, the salary of computer science, engineering, biological engineering and other related majors is mostly in the leading position among the majors in the United States, and eight of the top ten majors in the United States are STEM majors.
Today, we share the top 10 universities with the best SREM majors in the United States:
(1) American Merchant Marine Academy
The American Merchant Marine Academy was founded in 1943 and is located in Kingsbury, New York, about 20 miles east of New York. The College is a national agency run by the Federal Government's Maritime Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The College is a four-year institution of education. The American Merchant Marine Academy strives to prepare students to become disciplined, dedicated leaders who dedicate themselves to service at sea and beyond. The Merchant Marine Academy's professional programs include: logistics and multimodal transportation, marine engineering, offshore engineering and shipyard management, offshore engineering systems, maritime transportation, maritime operations and technology, etc.
(2) California Institute of Technology
Popular undergraduate majors at Caltech include chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, etc.; Popular majors for graduate students include aeronautics, astrophysics, biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Its strengths include physics, chemistry, astronomy and space science in basic science.
(3) U.S. Coast Guard College
The United States Coast Guard College (New London) maintains its education in science and professional courses, as well as a number of major-specific courses. Academic programs are combined with military training to equip military cadets with the necessary vocational skills.
Military students sometimes take some courses at the University of Connecticut, which is adjacent to the U.S. Coast Guard. The school offers the following majors: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Government, Marine Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Operational Research and Computer Analysis, Marine and Environmental Science, and Management.
(4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT has six faculties, including the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the School of Engineering, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, which are famous for engineering and computer science, ranking at the top of the academic rankings of universities in the world, and the rest are physics, chemistry, economics, philosophy, political science, architecture and other disciplines.
(5) United States Naval Academy
There are five teaching departments in the teaching institution, each with several departments, each headed by a civilian or naval officer. The Director of the Department of Naval Science is responsible for the Department of Command, the Department of Ordnance, and the Department of Maritime Medicine; The Head of the Department of Sociology and Humanities is responsible for the Department of Political Science, the Department of History and the Department of Foreign Languages; The Head of the Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering is responsible for the Departments of Mathematics, Engineering and Natural Sciences. The courses offered are: mathematics, natural sciences, humanities and sociology, navigation, engineering, weapons science, etc. There are also electives.
The teaching facilities are among the highest in the United States, including a small nuclear reactor, a navigation mapping room, an environmental science laboratory, a fleet of 80 ships, and an electronic computer center, in addition to various laboratories. These teaching equipment and facilities provide excellent conditions for the learning of students.
(6) Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College is committed to producing outstanding scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in the social and humanities, so that students are more aware of the impact of their work on society as a whole. The faculty awards four-year degrees in chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, engineering, and interdisciplinary degrees in mathematical biology, and has a joint major in computer science and mathematics or biology and chemistry.
(7) Ross-Homan Institute of Technology
The university is a first-class polytechnic, compared with the traditional 4-year American university, Ross Homan emphasizes teaching quality and employment, although not known to the domestic public, but enjoys a high reputation in the engineering community in the United States and even the world. Roshöman Institute of Technology is primarily undergraduate taught, with a small number of master's programs in engineering. In USNEWS' ranking of where doctorate not offered engineering majors, Roshomann Institute of Technology has been ranked first for 20 consecutive years.
(8) Colorado University of Mines
Colorado University of Mines was built to cater to the local mining industry, it is the first public institution of higher learning in Colorado and the first engineering school in Colorado, dedicated to engineering and applied science research, and is one of the strongest research institutions in the world in resource development, exploitation and utilization. The source of students and employment are very good, and it has an excellent reputation in the United States.
(9) Worcester Polytechnic Institute
WPI has long been the best school in New England, and has become a national university in the past two decades and has always ranked in the top 50~60 in the United States. WPI has a very good recognition in the New England business community. They know the school's traditions and history very well, and know that the students here are the best and most capable science and engineering students. For businesses here, WPI students are second only to MIT in popularity. The university emphasizes "collective problem solving" and "special reports as the foundation of education", encouraging students to do their own work and learn by doing.
(10) United States Air Force Academy
Students can choose to take a variety of majors and interdisciplinary courses, including engineering, basic science, social science, and anthropology. The academic curriculum has a wide range of core courses, and all students will take courses in natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, anthropology, military science, and physical education. About 60% of students' academic stress is due to core courses, which they have spent the first two years taking. In the third and fourth years, participants will have some autonomy in their studies to focus on their specialty, but the proportion of core courses is still considerable.
The above are ten universities with very prominent STEM majors, I hope it will be helpful to students and parents in choosing a school in the United States!