The study surveyed students at nine institutions, including Dartmouth, about their “academic choices, motivations, and measures of creative thinking and achievement,” writes the Chronicle. The article points out that while 9 percent of students at U.S. colleges and universities have dual majors, the percentage within the study’s sample group was higher, with 19 percent of students double-majoring.
“Double majors give students the opportunity to build bridges between domains of knowledge, and many students travel those bridges regularly,” a co-author of the report tells the Chronicle.
Read the full story, published 3/15/13 by The Chronicle of Higher Education.