Business is the country's number one college major

According to a recent article in the Ventura County Star, business is now the number one major among college students.

That's up from, say, the 1970s, when business was a distant third. This is information that comes from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Princeton Review.

A lot of theories are offered in the article penned by Jean Cowden Moore, and she sums them up in this key paragraph: "Educators say today's students might not be as idealistic as their counterparts in the 1960s. Plus, they've grown up more coddled than past generations. Now that they're college students, they want to continue the lifestyle they grew up with, and they see business as a major that will give them a stable income."