The reason most respectable colleges don't list majors on diplomas...

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There must be an element of regulation here, otherwise COSC would have separate names for their programs, right? It may not change the degree name, but there is a difference...

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone wanting a program that is officially recognized as being a program covering what they want to study.

I am going to look more into these CIP codes. Thank you for bringing them to my attention. I intend to find out what they are for, why they exist, who governs what specific criteria a program has to meet to be listed under one CIP code or another, and who uses them officially.

I wonder if CIP codes appear on transcripts. Do graduate schools or government jobs use them to determine what your degree is really in, despite what your school calls it?

The descriptions of the various codes are so vague as to be practically useless in terms of dictating the content of a given program. Two Biology programs, for instance, could be entirely different and still fall within the definition of the CIP code for biology.