{"id":246,"date":"2014-04-17T21:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2014-06-05T17:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:33:54","slug":"new-mymajors-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/transition\/2014\/04\/17\/new-mymajors-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New MyMajors for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117910908603707878379\/posts\" \/>\nThe minions at MyMajors have been working pretty hard over the last 3 months to roll out a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\">MyMajors<\/a> including more data, new design, and mobile optimized college and career readiness website for students, counselors and parents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4156 aligncenter\" alt=\"major college career\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog.mymajors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/major-college-career.png\" width=\"491\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We optimized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/college-major-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\">The College Major Quiz<\/a> to be even better and added <strong>22,000 new pages<\/strong> for our students, counselors and parents. In those 22,000 pages, we added <strong>400 new pieces of data<\/strong> for each of the 7,500 colleges\u00a0and universities including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/college\/university-of-california-berkeley\/majors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Majors<\/a> offered on campus<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog.mymajors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UC-Berkeley-mobile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4154\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"UC Berkeley mobile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog.mymajors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UC-Berkeley-mobile.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Associates, Bachelors, Masters, Certificate and Doctoral degrees offered on campus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/college\/university-of-california-berkeley\/tuition\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tuition<\/a>: in state and out of state costs, room &amp; board, fees, and book costs<\/li>\n<li>Graduation rates \u2013 4 year and 6 year<\/li>\n<li>Number of enrolled students &#8211; 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