# majors and minors in college

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/majors-and-minors-in-college/170212>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/majors-and-minors-in-college/170212 "2003-04-22T02:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/majors-and-minors-in-college/170212/21 "2003-04-23T17:55:08Z")

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To _further_ muddy the water, some schools (like mine) use the term “concentration” to refer to what most other schools call “minors”. You sometimes hear people saying things like “I’m a Bio major with a concentration in Dance”, which makes no sense unless you realize that around here a concentration is a minor and not a field of emphasis within a major.

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