Why type of education/major is needed to become a lobbyist?

Question

Need to help son select college/courses.

Answer 1

It doesn't depend on any major, but expertise. On what issue your son will become a lobbyist? Pick a major that is coherrent with the issue.

The main thing of becoming a lobbyist is the ability to analyze, speak and to convince other people, and you don't need any specific major in college for that, because it must be trained outside the college, by experience.

Another major thing is... You don't have to be right or correct to be a good lobbyist, as long as you can convince the people that the opposite arguments are wrong, there you are as a lobbyist.

Answer 2

A lobbyist, while not a recognised proffession, entails some very tricky maneuvering in political areas as well as legal areas within the government institutions. They represent groups or a group that especially wants their interests heard. The most effective lobbyists that I have seen and Kmow (2) are lawyers who specialized in constitutional law and reforms.
They have the most advantageous benefit of being extremely outgoing, along with the legal background to sell the ideas in a planned method that will be pre prepared for the govenment rep to propose without him having to do any work except present it.
Out of 310 lobbyists in Washington listed, there are 32% of them that are lawyers.
Stands to reason that the old boy network would work this way as most politicians are lawyers anyway.

Answer 3

I suspect that many lobbyists get into it from many different fields. Either your son could major in political science, public relations (good suggestion), communications, or the like, or he could major in a field that is more similar to the types of interests he is lobbying for. For example, if he is lobbying for manufacturers, then he could major in business.

Answer 4

Definitely take some political science courses

Answer 5

Public Relations could be used