When choosing a college it is also helpful to look at all the courses that are available on campus. In this article I will focus on courses that will be outside of your major. This is because I’ve already addressed courses that would be in your major in the article titled “Degree Programs Offered“.

While your main priority may be to choose a school that will support your career path, it is also important to look at the school’s course catalogue to identify courses that you would want to take for pure fun. For example, one of my friends knew she wanted to be a pre-med major, but she also loves music and outdoor activities, especially swimming. So, she chose a school that had a strong music program including band and also had swimming courses and a swim team and a marine biology minor. While at school she then took all the pre-med courses plus scuba diving and marine biology and even got to swim with whales in the Florida Keys for a course that occurred over Spring Break and swim with another type of whale in the San Juan Islands in Washington State during a summer college course. Now that friend is graduated from college and from grad school and working at a job in the healthcare field that she loves, but she will be the first one to tell you that her work colleagues are more interested in her stories about swimming with whales in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans than in which experiments she did in her pre-med classes.

So while a college education should help you attain your career goals it also can provide you with refreshing activities that make for fun stories for the rest of your life.