Majors and Minors
At Penn, we believe that students benefit from seeing the world through a variety of perspectives and charting a course that matches their unique academic and career goals.
You’ll choose an undergraduate school during the application process, and once in that program, with plenty of help from faculty and peers along the way, you’ll pursue a combination of requirements, elective courses and eventually a major or concentration that allows you to integrate courses, ideas, and research across Penn’s undergraduate and graduate schools.
Choosing A Major
We encourage students to begin with what interests them and see where it takes them. You’ll be exposed to so many new ideas and options once at Penn that we’ve stopped asking applicants to indicate an intended major during the application process for most programs. The one exception is Penn Engineering because students declare their majors at the end of the first year, so understanding your intended major is still helpful to the admissions committee.
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
Bachelor of Arts
- Africana Studies
- Ancient History
- American Sign Language and Deaf Studies (minor)
- Ancient History (minor)
- Anthropology
- Archaeological Science (minor)
- Architectural History (minor)
- Architecture
- Asian American Studies (minor)
- Bioethics
- Biology
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Classical Studies
- Cognitive Science
- Communication
- Comparative Literature
- Computational Neuroscience (minor)
- Creative Writing (minor)
- Criminology
- Data Science and Analytics (minor)
- Design
- Digital Humanities
- Earth and Environmental Science
- East Asian Area Studies (minor)
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- East Central European Studies (minor)
- Economic Policy (minor)
- Economics
- Engineering (second major only)
- English
- Environmental Humanities (minor)
- Environmental Science (minor)
- Environmental Studies
- European Studies (minor)
- Fine Arts
- Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies
- French and Francophone Studies (minor)
- Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
- Geology (minor)
- German (minor)
- Global Medieval Studies (minor)
- Health and Societies
- Hispanic Studies
- History
- History of Art
- Individualized Major
- International Development (minor)
- International Relations
- Italian Studies (minor)
- Jazz and Popular Music (minor)
- Jewish Studies
- Journalistic Writing (minor)
- Latin American and Latinx Studies
- Law and Society
- Linguistics
- Logic, Information and Computation
- Mathematical Economics
- Mathematics
- Medical Sociology (minor)
- Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Modern Middle Eastern Studies (minor)
- Music
- Native American and Indigenous Studies (minor)
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience and Health Care Management (minor)
- Nutrition Science
- Philosophy
- Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychoanalytic Studies (minor)
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Russian and East European Studies
- Science, Technology and Society
- Sociology
- South Asia Studies
- Spanish (see Hispanic Studies)
- Statistics (minor)
- Survey Research and Data Analytics (minor)
- Theatre Arts
- Urban Real Estate and Development (minor)
- Urban Studies
- Visual Studies
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioengineering
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Digital Media Design
- Electrical Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Bachelor of Applied Science
- Biomedical Science
- Computer Science
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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Bachelor of Science in Economics
- Accounting
- Behavioral Economics
- Business Analytics
- Business Economics and Public Policy
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors for Business
- Finance
- Health Care Management and Policy
- Individualized
- Legal Studies and Business Ethics
- Management
- Marketing
- Marketing and Communication
- Marketing and Operations Management
- Operations, Information and Decisions
- Real Estate
- Retailing
- Statistics and Data Science
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