What do you want to do for the rest of your life? If you have an answer to that question then your major should be obvious. If you don't have the answer to that then maybe you shouldn't go to college. There are a certain number of people who need to go out into the real world and do a little travelling or a little working so that at the very least they know what they are not good at and what they do not want to do.
There are aptitude tests you can take that supposedly tell you what you are good at. Maybe you would be good at giving aptitude tests-for instance.
Let us say you are a lazy slacker who would like to do a little as possible and even less if you can get away with it. Then the perfect career for you might be in government. Private industry has less tolerance for slackers than government. Private firms tend to take people who "like to work at nothing all day" as free loaders who are eating other people's lunch. In government, since there are no profits being made and there is plenty of nothing going on, so who would know what you accomplished today anyway? The government needs just about every kind of worker you can imagine with the possible exceptions of strippers and honest accountants. So just knowing that you, a dedicated slacker, want to a government job does note tell us much.
Let's say that you wanted to be a man of amorphous disciplines and pseudo talents with an important sounding job title. Then you my friend need to go into public policy. Public policy is a fancy way of saying you want to tell everyone else what to do for change. Admit it slacker, you love the sound of that. You were born to be a bureaucrat.
Unfortunately there is the hard part of getting that degree first. You could study political science. Now there's a group of folks who don't even know how to burn toast properly. And you could be one of them!
But slacker if you major in public policy, political science, history, or liberal arts, they make you write papers and do research. And even if what these folks come up with as politicians is almost always pure grade "A" BS, they works darn hard at it.
Admit it slacker, you don't want to work that hard. Well take heart. Over in the engineering department (quick avert your eyes lest the unbridled fury of pure mathematics blind you) they have a name for the subject matter you seek. They called if fuzzy studies. A degree in fuzzy studies doesn't qualify you to butter toast, but it's still a degree. One of the things that engineering school dropouts were prone to do, lest their parents find out that they were total losers, was to take psychology and become psychology majors. Oh, dude. Talk about touchy feely. And since it easy it's full of chicks...whoops. Did I say that out loud? I mean, people who are in touch with their feelings. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It is difficult to believe that some who are not slackers would have made it this far. It seems I shall have to address the diligent as well. But first, one more aside to the slackers.
No, you don't want to be an English Major. Have you ever tried to make a rhyming scheme scan in iambic pentameter? And you don't want to either slacker. Stick to a course of study that asks you how you feel and try to get into a University that has a graduate school for HR-human relations. No one on earth knows less than HR. Slacker, you'll fit right in. HR in government is reputed to be the center of negative matter, negative energy and black holes. The space time continuum can only take so much nothing all in one spot.
And now for the diligent. When you were a child you took something apart to see if it worked. If it was a clock or a watch, you should be physics major. If it was a radio of television you should be an electrical engineering major. If it was flower or a plant you should be a botanist. If it was a living thing you are sick. Whoops, did I say that out loud? If it was an animal and you like animals, become a Vet. If it was a animal and you are not an animal lover, study medicine and become a doctor. If you had a chemistry set and no one could pull you away from it then Chemistry is your major.
If you liked playing with the track more than the Hot Wheels you should be a civil engineer and build roads. If you eschewed all your other toys and spent all our time building things, be an architect.
Now there are some of you who may not seem to fit easily into these pigeon holes but we will try anyway. If you liked to dissolve different salts into water and check carefully to see which ones froze and at which temperature then try Chemistry and Physics in equal measure and go for the one where you the highest grades on the final exam.