Several directions for future research in this area would help to clarify the meaning and generalizability of the present findings, including whether students pursuing specialty areas in business differ on the Big Five and narrow personality traits. Also, future researchers in this area could disaggregate majors that we consolidated under the term nonbusiness and make comparisons between business and other fields of study such as science,engineering, humanities, education,and other categories that higher education researchers have traditionally used (e.g., Feldman & Newcomb, 1970).