There is a blog article published recently at Microsoft JobsBlog which talks about the hottest fields of study for a career in technology. All these three hottest majors mentioned are data mining related. The list is as follows:
- Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing
- Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence
- Analytics/Statistics – specifically Web Analytics, A/B Testing and statistical analysis
The article concludes as:
These fields are very HOT and looking long term, the demand will be just that much greater in these areas.
You can read the full article at http://jobsblog.com/blog/top-three-new-tech-majors/.
