Most Popular Majors

For Bachelor's Degrees

• Communications/Journalism: 19%
• Social Sciences: 17%
• Engineering: 14%
• Psychology: 10%
• Visual and Performing Arts: 10%
• Biology: 5%
• History: 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: 6%
• MBA programs: 1%
• Other graduate or professional programs: 2%

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
• American Studies  B
• Asian Studies  B
• European Studies  B
• Women's Studies  B

Arts, Visual & Performing

• Art - General  B
• Art History/Criticism/Conservation  B
• Arts - General  B
• Dance  B
• Drama/Theater Arts  B
• Jazz Studies  B
• Music - General  B
• Music - General Performance  B
• Music - Piano/Organ  B
• Music - Voice/Opera  B
• Music Theory/Composition  B
• Musicology/Ethnomusicology  B
• Stringed Instruments  B
• Theater Literature/History/Criticism  B

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

• Biology  B
• Ecology  B

Business, Management, & Marketing

• Business - General  C
• Organizational Behavior Studies  B

Communications & Journalism

• Broadcast Journalism  B
• Communications/Rhetoric  B
• Journalism  B
• Radio/Television  B

Computer & Information Sciences

• Computer Science  B
• Computer/Information Sciences - General  B,C
• Information Sciences/Systems  B

Education

• Education - General  B
• Education of Learning Disabled  B
• Mathematics Education  B
• Music Teacher Education  B
• Secondary Education  B
• Social/Philosophical Foundations of Education  B

Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering  B
• Chemical Engineering  B
• Civil Engineering  B
• Computer Engineering - General  B
• Electrical/Communications Engineering  B
• Engineering - General  B
• Engineering Science  B
• Environmental Engineering  B
• Industrial Engineering  B
• Manufacturing Engineering  B
• Materials Engineering  B
• Materials Science  B
• Mechanical Engineering  B

English Language & Literature

• Creative Writing  B
• English Composition  C
• English Language & Literature - General  B

Foreign Language & Literature

• Classics  B
• Comparative Literature  B
• French  B
• German  B
• Italian  B
• Linguistics  B
• Slavic  B
• Spanish  B

Health Professions & Clinical Sciences

• Communication Disorders  B
• Premedicine  B

History

• History - General  B

Liberal Arts & Sciences

• General Studies  B
• Liberal Arts & Sciences  B

Mathematics

• Applied Mathematics  B
• Mathematics - General  B
• Statistics  B

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

• Biological/Physical Sciences  B
• Neuroscience  B
• Science, Technology & Society  B

Natural Resources & Conservation

• Environmental Science  B
• Environmental Studies  B

Philosophy & Religion

• Philosophy  B
• Religion/Religious Studies  B

Physical Sciences

• Chemistry  B
• Geology  B
• Physics  B

Psychology

• Cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics  B
• Community psychology  B
• Psychology - General  B

Public Administration & Services

• Community Organization/Advocacy  B
• Public Policy Analysis  B

Social Sciences

• Anthropology  B
• Economics  B
• Geography  B
• International Relations  B
• Political Science/Government  B
• Sociology  B
• Urban Studies  B