Your addiction to social media could net you a bachelor's degree.
Thanks to the rise of the unconventional careers such as professional blogger and social media manager, as well as new forms of technology, universities are constantly adding majors to the roster of diploma-worthy degrees. And millennials are ready to enroll.
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According to the The Princeton Review, the most popular college majors in the U.S. skew toward traditional courses of study. Business, psychology and nursing lead the pack of sensible undergraduate areas of interest.
But where's the fun in being traditional?
A variety of fields, from homeland security to digital forensics, promise careers that students should be vying for, college expert Suzanne Luse tells Mashable. However, there are some key skills everyone should have.
"No matter what you major in, you should have tech skills," Luse says. "Everybody needs to know how to code."
She also encourages students to look at each college overall, rather than just going to school for a specialized major.
"They should go to a college that they're going to be happy at," she advises. "Who can even predict what kind of jobs will be available five or six years from now?"
Here are the seven coolest new majors for the new generation.
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