by our College Data Analytics TeamStudents interested in professional, technical, business, & scientific writing, consider exploring other closely related fields of study. The sections below cover majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
The majors below prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of professional, technical, business, & scientific writing, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. They are ranked by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business/Corporate Communications, General | 3 | 801 |
| Business/Corporate Communications, Other | 3 | 12 |
| Children’s and Adolescent Literature | 3 | 55 |
| General Literature | 3 | 396 |
| Literature, Other | 3 | 36 |
| Broadcast Journalism | 2 | 757 |
| Communication, General | 2 | — |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other | 2 | 1,080 |
| Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, General | 2 | — |
| Digital Humanities | 2 | 126 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Creative Writing | 7,423 |
| Rhetoric and Composition | 1,400 |
| Writing, General | 765 |
| Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies, Other | 446 |
A specialization within Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies, professional, technical, business, & scientific writing shares its foundations with the other majors in that field.
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