Most Popular Majors

For Bachelor's Degrees

• Business/Marketing: 22%
• Communications/Journalism: 14%
• Engineering: 10%
• Social Sciences: 10%
• Health Professions: 8%
• Biology: 7%
• Education: 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: 4%
• Medical school: 3%
• MBA programs: 2%
• Other graduate or professional programs: 20%

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

• African-American Studies  B
• Women's Studies  B

Arts, Visual & Performing

• Drama/Theater Arts  B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

• Biochemistry  B
• Biology  B
• Molecular Biology  B

Business, Management, & Marketing

• Accounting  B
• Accounting Technology  B,C
• Business Administration/Management  B
• Business/Managerial Economics  B
• E-Commerce  B
• Finance/Banking  B
• Human Resources Management  B
• International Business  B
• Labor/Personnel Relations  C
• Management Information Systems  B
• Marketing Management  B

Communications & Journalism

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

Computer & Information Sciences

• Computer Science  B
• Information Sciences/Systems  B

Education

• Elementary Education  B
• English Teacher Education  B
• Foreign Language Teacher Education  B
• Junior High Education  B
• Mathematics Education  B
• Science Teacher Education  B
• Secondary Education  B
• Social Science Teacher Education  B
• Social Studies Teacher Education  B

Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering  B
• Civil Engineering  B
• Computer Engineering - General  B
• Electrical/Communications Engineering  B
• Engineering - General  B
• Environmental Engineering  B
• Manufacturing Engineering  B
• Mechanical Engineering  B

Engineering Technologies

• Engineering/Industrial Management  B

English Language & Literature

• Creative Writing  B
• English  B
• English Language & Literature - General  B
• Speech/Rhetorical Studies  B

Foreign Language & Literature

• Classics  B
• French  B
• German  B
• Spanish  B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

• Athletic Training/Sports Medicine  B
• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Technology  B
• Nursing (RN)  B
• Predentistry  B
• Premedicine  B
• Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology  B

History

• History - General  B

Law & Legal Studies

• Prelaw  B

Mathematics

• Computational Mathematics  B
• Mathematics - General  B
• Statistics  B

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

• Global Studies  B
• Intercultural/Multicultural/Diversity Studies  B
• Mathematics/Computer Science  B

Parks, Recreation & Fitness

• Exercise Sciences  B

Philosophy & Religion

• Philosophy  B
• Religion/Religious Studies  B

Physical Sciences

• Chemistry  B
• Physics  B

Psychology

• Psychology - General  B

Social Sciences

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