Best Major for Law School

Wondering what is the best major for law school? Learn some of the worst and best majors for law school. A few will surprise you.

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Today I want to discuss the best major for law school. This is important in countries like the United States and Canada, where you must first graduate from college before you can enter law school. Law schools don’t have any specific course of study requirements, which means anyone with any major can go to law school.

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[hankigoe]

A friend of mine majored in philosophy and minored in econ. So she's unemployed, but she understands why.

[orlandorodriguez]

The truth is the major doesn’t matter. Your GPA and LSAT are the things that matter. Score high and go wherever you want.

[gabbie]

I’m an Accounting major who plans on pursuing Corporate Law. When I tell people that, they ask why I’m not majoring in Finance or Political Science. My reasoning is always that if I change my mind about becoming a lawyer, I can fall back on my Accounting degree and become an Accountant or something else in the business world

[Tootisepop]

I'm like 15 years old why I'm I watching this

[PianomanTC]

I'm a music composition major. Most people give me strange looks when I tell them that I'm applying to law school. Watching this video was reassuring!

[sanchitoboc]

I like your videos a lot. You get right to the point but don't discourage anyone who might not be in the "best" position to go to law school. I was a paralegal when I applied to law school, having majored in Psychology before that. But I worked in a very obscure field of law (representing parents in child protection cases). So to me, everything I learned was new, and other than the half of one day in my Family Law class where we covered child protection law did I ever feel like I had a "head up" on the law. I am happy to report that I just passed the bar exam in my state in will be sworn in a week from today.

[raquelk]

All the philosophy majors put ya hands ...just me..cool

[tmann]

As an engineering major it is EXTREMELY HARD to get straight A’s

[joshuaschoonover]

If you want to make $$$, pick a STEM major or accounting. Whether you get AAA's or not, go to the most affordable law school because starting a career with a mountain of debt sucks, and you may never climb out from under the debt that they try to sell to law students these days. I know people with $250K law school debt...crazy! Also, unless you go to Harvard law (best, mostly because the friends & contacts you will make provide a career advantage), nobody will care where you go to law school, not a single client has ever asked me.

[MyKCchiefs]

I'm upset political science got beat out by Music and Engineering 😂

[abouttime]

Being a lawyer for 32 years and a founding senior partner in a very successful private firm I can say that the best students are STEM students that concentrate on majors that emphasise mathematics and critical thinking. Such as Math, Computer science, biochemistry and physics. Like engineering they concentrate on logic, explanation and serious study.

[jacob]

I've heard that a history major is also good for law school because, like philosophy, it encourages critical thinking skills.

[rf]

I am a Fine Arts Major. My mom has been an attorney for 28 years. I grew up going to court and enjoy learning about the law. I was thinking about entertainment law. I am afraid to pursue though because I don't want to fail.

[USASPORTSCARDS]

Based on LSAC data, it seems out of the top 10-15 most common majors found in law school applicants, Economics majors tend to have the highest LSAT scores. They also have a good degree that can land them a job should they not elect to go down the law school path.

[MrCassopea]

Even though I am a German Law School Student, i found your videos quite interesting and revealing.
I really did enjoy watching them.

[hypelock]

I was going to do philosophy on a whim during my pre-law courses. I never realized it'd be so beneficial.

[alessiocastellano]

Finally someone that actually gave some actual information backed with facts and experience. Thank you!

[jordanmcfarland-lewis]

I like this guy. Everything he said was very realistic, "straight forward", and true.

[hockeyguy]

I’m a political science major but my favorite college classes, by far, were the three philosophy classes that I took. I’ve enjoyed most of my political science classes but the philosophy classes really intrigued me. As a senior, I look back and wonder if I would’ve enjoyed majoring in philosophy more than political science. Oh well, at least I did take a few philosophy classes.

[esunsalmista]

I studied philosophy in undergrad and really the 2 main differences that I noticed among different departments was teaching methodology (which the video explains) but also grading methodology. What I mean by that is that in philosophy you’ll be assigned maybe a total of 50-100 pages of reading in between assignments which are usually just papers. Yes it’s not a lot of reading but it’s dense and you’re expected to treat every sentence seriously. That means you’ll have to digest the reading throughout several weeks and there’s no way around it since it’s the sole source you’ll be using for your papers. It’s near impossible to wing a philosophy paper. You can wing papers in almost every other humanities major and probably any social science that assigns papers. All this means is study what you like, BUT give it the seriousness you’d give anything else that’s as expensive as your degree. You can have a rewarding experience studying English but if you’re writing all of your papers the night before you’re wasting your damn time being in college.