Business. About 4 in 10 NCAA players with a listed major fall in that group, which includes finance, accounting and management. Business leads at D1, D2 and D3.
If your player wants engineering, keep reading. Players study it at every NCAA level, and it is more common at D2 and D3 than at D1. You can play baseball and learn to build things.
Your player does not have to pick the most popular major. Use these numbers to find schools to ask about his field.
Business leads, even at D3
Business comes first at D3, ahead of science and engineering. At D2, it accounts for nearly half of the listed majors.
Percent of players with a listed major, including undeclared.
A business major is not a job title. Ask which field interests your player. Start with our business guide for D2 and D3 baseball schools, or the accounting guide if he already knows.
What changes after business?
Communications has its largest NCAA share at D1. Kinesiology and exercise science have theirs at D2.
If your player wants to study how athletes move, take a look at D2. Our kinesiology guide for D2 and D3 baseball schools can help you find programs to consider.
Do D3 players choose harder majors?
Science and economics are more common among listed D3 players than at D1 or D2. Business still comes first at D3. To judge how demanding a degree is, compare the courses at the schools your player is considering.
Engineering is about twice as common among listed D3 players as among listed D1 players. D2 is close to D3.
If your player wants to build things, start with our engineering guide for D2 and D3 baseball schools. For a player interested in health care, see our pre-med and nursing guides.
Undeclared is an answer, too
Most undeclared players in our D1 and D3 data are freshmen. If your player has not picked a field, start with subjects he likes. Ask prospective schools when he needs to declare.
You can make a school list before you make a career choice.
Check the fit, in class and on the field
Knowing what players study is half of a school list. The other half is fit: would the school admit your player, and does he look like the players its program takes?
Our free preview answers both for three schools. Pick any three D1, D2 or D3 programs, or let us pick, and each one gets a card with two answers side by side:
- Academic fit: how his GPA and test scores compare with the students the school admits, how selective it is, and whether it offers the major he wants.
- Athletic fit: how he compares with the players the program took at his position.
No card. You need his grad year, position, state and GPA.
How we counted the majors
We read the 2026 rosters and counted about 13,000 NCAA players with a listed major.
Those players came from over 400 NCAA baseball rosters. Not every school prints majors. We count only the players with a listed major, including undeclared.
Schools use their own labels. We group finance, accounting, marketing and business administration as business. Economics and sport management stay separate, as do kinesiology and sport management. Labels we cannot place go in "Other".
A listed major is the school's label for what a player studies now, not a record of his final degree. We do not know how the missing players' choices compare, so the chart describes players with listed majors, not every player in a division.
On the NAIA rosters we read, business also leads, followed by kinesiology and sport management. Junior college is a separate problem: only about 1 in 10 rosters in our data print any majors. We leave JUCO out of the chart.
Questions families ask
What do college baseball players major in?
Business is the most common group at D1, D2 and D3, including finance, accounting and management. It accounts for about 4 in 10 NCAA players with a listed major.
What do D1 baseball players major in?
Business leads among D1 players with a listed major. Communications, sport management and kinesiology follow it, in that order.
Do D3 baseball players pick harder majors?
D3 has larger shares of science, economics and engineering majors than D1, but business still comes first. How demanding a degree is depends on its courses, not its baseball division.
Can you play college baseball and major in engineering?
Yes, our rosters include engineering majors at D1, D2 and D3. Among players with a listed major, engineering is about twice as common at D3 as at D1.
Is it normal for a college baseball player to be undeclared?
Yes, most undeclared players in our D1 and D3 data are freshmen. If your player has not picked a field yet, ask prospective schools when he needs to declare.