Most Popular Majors

For Bachelor's Degrees

• Visual and Performing Arts: 23%
• Social Sciences: 13%
• Foreign Languages and Literature: 9%
• English: 8%
• Interdisciplinary Studies: 8%
• Psychology: 8%
• Biology: 7%
• History: 7%
• Physical Sciences: 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: 3%
• Medical school: 2%
• Other graduate or professional programs: 18%

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.

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, & Gender Studies

• Asian Studies  B
• Chinese Studies  B
• East Asian Studies  B
• Japanese Studies  B
• Russian/Slavic Area Studies  B
• Women's Studies  B

Arts, Visual & Performing

• Art - General  B
• Art History/Criticism/Conservation  B
• Drama/Theater Arts  B
• Fine/Studio Arts  B
• Jazz Studies  B
• Music - General  B
• Music - General Performance  B
• Music - Piano/Organ  B
• Music - Voice/Opera  B
• Music History/Literature  B
• Music Theory/Composition  B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

• Animal Behavior/Ethology  B
• Aquatic Biology/Limnology  B
• Biochemistry  B
• Biology  B
• Botany  B
• Cellular/Anatomical Biology  B
• Chem/Phys/Molecular Biology  B
• Developmental Biology/Embryology  B
• Ecology  B
• Environmental Biology  B
• Evolutionary Biology  B
• Genetics  B
• Marine/Aquatic Biology  B
• Microbiology  B
• Molecular Biochemistry  B
• Zoology  B

Business, Management, & Marketing

• International Finance  B
• Management Information Systems  B

Computer & Information Sciences

• Computer/Information Sciences - General  B

Education

• Music Teacher Education  B

English Language & Literature

• American Literature  B
• English  B
• English Language & Literature - General  B
• English Literature (British)  B

Foreign Language & Literature

• Ancient Near Eastern/Biblical Languages  B
• Chinese  B
• Classics  B
• East Asian  B
• French  B
• German  B
• Greek, Ancient  B
• Japanese  B
• Latin  B
• Linguistics  B
• Russian  B
• Spanish  B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

• Predentistry  B
• Premedicine  B
• Prepharmacy  B
• Preveterinary Medicine  B

History

• History - General  B

Law & Legal Studies

• Prelaw  B

Liberal Arts & Sciences

• Liberal Arts & Sciences  B

Mathematics

• Mathematics - General  B

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

• Biological/Physical Sciences  B
• Cognitive Science  B
• Global Studies  B
• Intercultural/Multicultural/Diversity Studies  B
• Mathematics/Computer Science  B
• Natural Sciences  B
• Neuroscience  B

Natural Resources & Conservation

• Environmental Studies  B

Philosophy & Religion

• Philosophy  B
• Philosophy & Religion - General  B
• Religion/Religious Studies  B

Physical Sciences

• Chemistry  B
• Geology  B
• GeophysicsSeismology  B
• Physics  B
• TheoreticalMathematical Physics  B

Psychology

• Psychology - General  B

Social Sciences

• Anthropology  B
• Economics  B
• Political Science/Government  B