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, Minors, and Concentrations
Bachelor of Arts Majors and Minors
- Africana Studies (major and minor)
- American Public Policy(Interschool minor only)
- American Sign Language and Deaf Studies (minor only)
- Ancient History (major and minor)
- Anthropology (major and minor)
- Archaeological Science (minor only)
- Architectural History (minor only)
- Architecture (major and minor)
- Asian American Studies (minor only)
- Biochemistry(major only)
- Bioethics (major and minor)
- Biology (major and minor)
- Biophysics (major and minor)
- Chemistry (major and minor)
- Cinema and Media Studies (major and minor)
- Classical Studies (major and minor)
- Cognitive Science< (major and minor)
- Communication (major only)
- Comparative Literature (major and minor)
- Computational Neuroscience (minor only)
- Consumer Psychology (minor only)
- Creative Writing (minor only)
- Criminology (major only)
- Data Science and Analytics (minor only)
- Design (major and minor)
- Digital Humanities (minor only)
- Earth and Environmental Science (major only)
- East Asian Area Studies (minor only)
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations (major and minor)
- East Central European Studies (minor only)
- Economics (major and minor)
- Economic Policy (minor only)
- Engineering (second major only, minor at SEAS)
- English (major and minor)
- Environmental Science (minor only)
- Environmental Studies (major and minor)
- European Studies (minor only)
- Fine Arts (major and minor)
- French and Francophone Studies (major and minor)
- Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (major and minor)
- Geology (minor only)
- German (major and minor)
- Global Medieval Studies (minor only)
- Health and Societies (major only)
- Hispanic Studies (major and minor)
- History (major and minor)
- History of Art (major and minor)
- Individualized Major
- International Development (minor early)
- International Relations (major and minor)
- Italian Studies (major and minor)
- Jewish Studies (major and minor)
- Journalistic Writing (minor only)
- Landscape Studies (minor early)
- Latin American and Latinx Studies (major and minor)
- Law and Society (major and minor)
- Legal Studies and History (minor only)
- Linguistics (major and minor)
- Logic, Information and Computation (major and minor)
- Mathematical Economics (major only)
- Mathematics (major and minor)
- Medical Sociology (minor only)
- Modern Middle Eastern Studies (major and minor)
- Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (major and minor)
- Music (major and minor)
- Native American and Indigenous Studies (minor only)
- Neuroscience (major and minor)
- Neuroscience & Health Care Management (minor only)
- Nutrition (minor)
- Nutrition Science (major)
- Philosophy (major and minor)
- Philosophy, Politics and Economics (major only)
- Physics (major and minor)
- Political Science (major and minor)
- Psychoanalytic Studies (minor only)
- Psychology (major and minor)
- Religious Studies (major and minor)
- Romance Languages (dual major only)
- Russian and East European Studies (major and minor)
- Science, Technology and Society (major and minor)
- Sociology (major and minor)
- South Asia Studies (major and minor)
- Statistics (minor)
- Survey Research & Data Analytics (minor only)
- Sustainability and Environmental Management (minor only)
- Theatre Arts (major and minor)
- Urban Real Estate and Development (minor only)
- Urban Education (major and minor
- Visual Studies (minor only)
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioengineering
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
- Visual and Interactive Computing
Bachelor of Applied Science
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Nursing undergraduates all receive a BSN from Penn. However, our Nurses can minor in subjects in any of our four schools.
Nursing Majors & Minors
- Nutrition Science (second major)
- Global Health (minor)
- Health Communications (minor)
- History, Health, and Humanities (minor)
- Nursing & Health Services Management (minor)
- Nutrition (minor)
Bachelor of Science in Economics
Wharton undergraduates all receive a BSE from Penn. However, students specialize in an a business area of their choosing through a Concentration.
Wharton Concentrations
- Accounting
- Artificial Intelligence for Business
- Behavioral Economics
- Business Analytics
- Business Economics and Public Policy
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Finance
- Health Care Management and Policy
- Impact, Value and Sustainable Business
- Individualized
- Leading Across Differences
- 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