{"id":17715,"date":"2026-03-19T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golive.vegas\/?p=17715"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:25:11","slug":"sin-city-scholars-nevadas-1-college-major-is-exactly-what-you-think-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golive.vegas\/en\/sin-city-scholars-nevadas-1-college-major-is-exactly-what-you-think-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin City Scholars: Nevada's #1 College Major Is Exactly What You Think It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If you’ve driven down the I-15 lately, you already know. Sandwiched between ads for all-you-can-eat buffets and “GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS,” roughly nine out of every ten billboards in Las Vegas is for a personal injury attorney. “HURT IN AN ACCIDENT? ONE CALL, THAT’S ALL.” It’s basically our state flower at this point.<\/p>

by Staci Layne Wilson<\/b><\/p>

So it should surprise absolutely no one that a new study by Studocu has confirmed what every Las Vegas local has long suspected: criminal justice<\/em> is the most Googled college major in Nevada, racking up the most monthly searches and edging out computer science by a nail-biting four searches.<\/p>

Four. The margin is four.<\/p>

Nevada is a state where the casinos have their own courts, the downtown area inspired a Scorsese film, and you can legally gamble away your rent money at 3 a.m. while a man in a sequined vest plays “Viva Las Vegas” six feet away. Of course<\/em> we’re interested in law enforcement, legal processes, and criminal procedure. We live inside a real-time case study.<\/p>

What makes this even more delightful is that Studocu’s own write-up accidentally swapped the descriptions for Criminal Justice and Psychology, giving CJ the psychology write-up (developmental behavior! cognitive processes!) and handing Psychology the law enforcement description. In a story about Nevada’s love of criminal justice, the researchers themselves committed an academic crime. Poetic. Truly.<\/p>

Coming in at #2 is Computer Science, because if you’re not locking people up in this state, you’re building the app that helps them hide their assets. Psychology lands at #3, which tracks, understanding why<\/em> someone thinks they can beat the house is a full-time academic discipline out here.<\/p>

Business Administration and Nursing round out the list, representing the two other pillars of Vegas life: hustling and patching people up afterward.<\/p>

A Studocu spokesperson offered the measured observation that “students often explore majors that provide clear academic structures and broad opportunities”, which is a very polite way of saying that kids here grow up watching lawyers get rich and think, yeah, I could do that.<\/em><\/p>

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