by our College Data Analytics TeamThose considering demography & population studies, take a look at other closely related fields of study. Below you will find 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 demography & population studies, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Ordered by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Research/Methodology | 4 | 13 |
| Applied/Public Sociology | 3 | 105 |
| Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods | 3 | 1,929 |
| Rural Sociology | 3 | 61 |
| Sociology and Anthropology | 3 | 496 |
| Sociology, General | 3 | 31,211 |
| Sociology, Other | 3 | 3 |
| Criminology | 2 | 10,365 |
| Economics and Foreign Language/Literature | 2 | — |
| Geoarcheaology | 2 | 8 |
Part of the broader field of Demography, demography & population studies sits alongside related programs in that field.
More about our data sources and methodologies.