Muller: College Majors That Produce The Highest (And Lowest) LSATs And UGPAs

As he did last year, Derek Muller (Pepperdine) has mined the latest data to produce this neat visualization of the college majors that produce the highest (and lowest) LSATs and UGPAs among law school applicants, with this caveat:

One cannot identify causation based upon these scores. Students self-identify majors, sometimes more than one, or sometimes none at all; others self-select into taking the LSAT altogether (opting for medical school, business school, or a lucrative career instead of law school). Therefore, it is emphatically not necessarily the case, based on this data, that these majors cause students to perform better or worse on the LSAT. It simply describes them.

Here are the Top 10 and Bottom 10 college majors by LSAT:

Major	LSAT	Major	UGPA
Physics	163.0	French	3.52
Linguistics	161.4	Linguistics	3.51
Math	161.1	Music	3.45
Biology	160.8	International Studies	3.44
Economics	159.2	Art History	3.43
Policy	159.0	Physics	3.41
Bio-Chemistry	158.9	Math	3.40
Philosophy	158.8	Foreign Language	3.40
Art History	158.4	International Relations	3.40
International Relations	158.3	Spanish	3.37
Business Management	149.9	Marketing	3.16
Law	149.7	Business Management	3.15
Health	149.4	Health Professions	3.15
Criminology	149.1	Criminal Justice	3.14
Child Develop.	149.0	Business Adm.	3.13
Pre-law	148.4	Civil Engineering	3.13
Management/Adm.	148.4	Biology	3.11
Nursing	148.2	Computer Science	3.11
Social Work	147.1	Management/Adm.	3.09
Criminal Justice	146.0	Health	3.06

Update:  Derek has mined the same data to produce this visualization of college majors that produce the highest (and lowest) LSATs and UGPAs among law school matriculants.