Most Popular Majors

For Bachelor's Degrees

• Business/Marketing: 29%
• Communications/Journalism: 17%
• Social Sciences: 11%
• Education: 8%
• Visual and Performing Arts: 8%
• Biology: 7%
• English: 6%
• Psychology: 5%

Graduate Paths

Percent of graduates of four-year programs who typically continue their education within one year of receiving their bachelor's degree:

• Law school: 14%
• Medical school: 19%
• MBA programs: 5%

All Majors

Levels at which colleges offer undergraduate majors are designated by these letters:
A = Associate degree, B = Bachelor's degree, C = Certificate or diploma.

Arts, Visual & Performing

• Acting  B
• Art - General  B
• Art History/Criticism/Conservation  B
• Commercial/Advertising Art  B
• Directing/Theatrical Production  B
• Drama/Theater Arts  B
• Drawing  B
• Fine/Studio Arts  B
• Music - General  B
• Music - General Performance  B
• Music - Piano/Organ  B
• Music - Voice/Opera  B
• Music Management/Merchandising  B
• Music Pedagogy  B
• Painting  B
• Printmaking  B
• Sculpture  B
• Theater Design/Stagecraft  B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

• Biochemistry  B
• Biology  B
• Cellular/Molecular Biology  B
• Pharmacology  B

Business, Management, & Marketing

• Accounting  B
• Actuarial Science  B
• Business - General  B
• Business/Managerial Economics  B
• Finance/Banking  B
• International Business  B
• Management Information Systems  B
• Management Science  B
• Marketing Management  B

Communications & Journalism

• Advertising  B
• Broadcast Journalism  B
• Communications/Rhetoric  B
• Journalism  B
• Mass Communications/Media Studies  B
• Public Relations  B
• Radio/Television  B

Computer & Information Sciences

• Computer Science  B
• Computer/Information Sciences - General  B
• Information Technology  B

Education

• Curriculum/Instruction  B
• Drama/Dance Teacher Education  B
• Early Childhood Education  B
• Education - General  B
• Elementary Education  B
• Mathematics Education  B
• Music Teacher Education  B
• Secondary Education  B
• Special Education  B

English Language & Literature

• English  B
• English Composition  B
• English Literature (British)  B
• Speech/Rhetorical Studies  B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

• Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry  B

History

• History - General  B

Mathematics

• Mathematics - General  B

Natural Resources & Conservation

• Environmental Science  B
• Natural Resources Management/Policy  B

Philosophy & Religion

• Ethics  B
• Philosophy  B
• Religion/Religious Studies  B

Physical Sciences

• Astronomy  B
• Chemistry  B
• Physics  B

Psychology

• Psychology - General  B

Social Sciences

• Anthropology  B
• Economics  B
• International Relations  B
• Political Science/Government  B
• Social Sciences - General  B
• Sociology  B