{"id":8448,"date":"2013-10-17T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:09:51","slug":"psychology-makes-major-ucf-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/psychology-makes-major-ucf-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Tops the List as Most Popular Major at UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8450 alignleft\" alt=\"slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232-300x101.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232-768x259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232-299x101.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/10\/slide-2-Psychology-building1-e1359042355232.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>UCF&#8217;s Top Two Majors are Health Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the University of Central Florida is historically known as a technological school, it turns out that its top two undergraduate majors are health-related professions. Nursing is the second most popular major at UCF, but psychology tops the list.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology Department Chair Jeffery Cassisi says it\u2019s no surprise to him that psychology is the most popular undergraduate major at the university. In fact, he says that\u2019s the case at most schools, but it\u2019s not because everyone wants to be a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly that\u2019s the reason for many people to come into the major, but psychology at UCF is in the College of Sciences, and we\u2019re a very versatile major within the College of Sciences,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He says about half of UCF\u2019s psychology students are interested in counseling. But he says psychology is used in business and technology industries. For instance, the massive data gathering done by companies like Google or Blue Cross Blue Shield creates a need for people who can analyze trends and usage- and that\u2019s what psych majors do. He says psychology is also becoming attractive as a pre-med major, because the new version of the medical school entrance exam will have heavy emphasis on social and behavioral sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha Mouloua, director of the Ph.D program in applied experimental and human factors psychology, said there are 3,731 students majoring in psychology, 879 with psychology minors and 35 faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the story and audio from WMFE, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfe.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=15127&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1041\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the\u00a0story, &#8220;Psychology Makes a\u00a0Major Impact at UCF&#8221;\u00a0from the Central Florida Future, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralfloridafuture.com\/news\/psychology-makes-major-ucf-impact-1.2840906#.UmAypbHD-Ul\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF&#8217;s Top Two Majors are Health Related While the University of Central Florida is historically known as a technological school, it turns out that its top two undergraduate majors are health-related professions. Nursing is the second most popular major at UCF, but psychology tops the list. Psychology Department Chair Jeffery Cassisi says it\u2019s no surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":8450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,13,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-psychology-departments","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Psychology Tops the List as Most Popular Major at UCF - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/psychology-makes-major-ucf-impact\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Psychology Tops the List as Most Popular Major at UCF - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UCF&#8217;s Top Two Majors are Health Related While the University of Central Florida is historically known as a technological school, it turns out that its top two undergraduate majors are health-related professions. 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