All Majors
Accounting
Accounting
This degree prepares students to engage in financial management, business transaction tracking and merger-and-acquisition tracking to adapt to a constantly evolving field.
Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC)
Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC)
The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) program is a military training program for those that desire to serve in the United States Air Force as an Officer.
African American Studies
African American Studies
This minor allows for a more concentrated focus on a specific racialized population in the United States—in this case, peoples of African, African American, and African Caribbean heritage.
American Indian Studies
American Indian Studies
This minor allows for a more concentrated focus on a specific racialized population in the United States—in this case, peoples with heritage from the indigenous communities of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii.
Animation Studies
Animation Studies
Animation Studies integrates many components of animation studies and production: in this minor, you will study critical, historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of animation.
Anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the comparative study of people and their ways of life across the full temporal and spatial range of human experience.
Applied Ethics
Applied Ethics
Applied ethics, or practical ethics, is the analysis of ethical issues such as these as they arise in real-world problems.
Applied Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Applied Mathematics is a combination of mathematical science and specialized knowledge in related fields such as physics, engineering, business, and computer science.
Arabic
Arabic
The Arabic minor offers students the chance to learn an additional language and gain a deeper understanding of another culture.
Architectural Studies
Architectural Studies
Architectural Studies is a pre-professional degree that prepares students for the planning, designing, and constructing of buildings and other physical structures.
Art BFA
Art BFA
We have an excellent undergraduate studio program. The curriculum motivates students to develop a range of technical, formal and conceptual strengths.
Art History
Art History
The discipline of Art History encompasses the study of artistic endeavors of peoples around the globe. Individuals often choose to study art history to satisfy a deep curiosity about how art communicates the ideas of a culture.
Arts Technology
Arts Technology
This cutting-edge program creates an academic environment that promotes interdisciplinary study in arts computing, and it has created an entirely new area for artists and practitioners to create, display, and disseminate their work.
Asian Pacific American Studies
Asian Pacific American Studies
This minor allows for a more concentrated focus on a specific racialized population in the United States—in this case, those with heritage from the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Asian Studies
Asian Studies
The Asian Studies major is an interdisciplinary degree that will both deepen and broaden your understanding of this crucial region of the world.
Astronomy
Astronomy
If you like mathematics, computing, experiments, and wish to contribute to the future scientific progress of humankind, the exciting field of astronomy will maximize your career options.
Athletic Training
Athletic Training
The Athletic Training program prepares students for certification; athletic trainers are health care professionals who specialize in preventing, recognizing, managing, and rehabilitating injuries.
Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences seeks to understand the behavior and predictability of the Earth's atmosphere and requires a good foundation in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science.
Bachelor of University Studies BUS
Bachelor of University Studies BUS
This degree provides students with the flexibility of creating an individualized major in an area not otherwise available at the university.
Ballet BFA
Ballet BFA
This degree prepares students for professional performing and teaching careers in colleges, universities, and other educational and professional organizations throughout the world.
Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification, and taxonomy.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering BS
Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes.
Book Arts
Book Arts
The Book Arts Program at the University of Utah champions wide-ranging explorations of the book.
British Studies
British Studies
The goal of British Studies is to provide students with the opportunity to obtain a broad, multi-faceted understanding of the culture and society of Great Britain and the former colonies of the British Empire.
Business
Business
The University of Utah's Business minor is designed for students majoring in academic areas outside of the business school (non-business majors only) who wish to supplement their major studies with education in business topics.
Business Administration
Business Administration
Provides students with a strong knowledge base across the fundamental disciplines of business: Accounting, Finance, Management, Operations Management, and Information Systems.
Campaign Management
Campaign Management
The campaign management program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to learn the theory and practices that will allow them to be effective participants in election and advocacy campaigns.
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
A chemical engineer applies chemical and engineering knowledge to several fields—environmental protection, pollution prevention, biotechnology, electronics, chemistry, petroleum, medicine, and law.
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the study of matter, its properties, how and why substances combine or seperate to form other substances, and how substances interact with energy.
Chicana/o Studies
Chicana/o Studies
This minor allows for a more concentrated focus on a specific racialized population in the United States—in this case, peoples with Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Mexican American heritage.
Chinese
Chinese
The Chinese major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture through the study of the Chinese language, literature, and society.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering encompasses a wide range of planning, design, and construction of buildings, bridges, dams, transportation, water supply and reclamation, fluid flow, and geotechnical engineering.
Classical Civilization
Classical Civilization
The Classics Civilization minor allows students to study the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, including their history, philosophy, religion, archeology, and art history.
Classics
Classics
The Classics Program includes the study of all facets of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, including history, philosophy, drama, history of science, textual criticism, religion, archeology and art history.
Classics: Greek or Latin
Classics: Greek or Latin
The Classics minor with a specialization in Greek or Latin allows students to study the languages and literature of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
Climate Change
Climate Change
Human alteration of Earth's climate is an accepted scientific fact. Gain Scientifically-based, up-to-date knowledge is essential to formulating adaption and response strategies, and a certificate in Climate Change will provide you with this knowledge.
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science
Cognitive scientists attempt to answer questions of the mind, thoughts, and others as they try to discover how the mind works.
Communication
Communication
Students majoring in Communication complete one of the following four sequences: Strategic Communication; Journalism; Communication Studies; or Science, Health, Environmental, and Risk Communication.
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies
Students majoring or minoring in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies compare multiple literatures and cultures within the framework of a single degree.
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering includes the design, implementation, and programming of digital computers and computer-controlled electronic systems.
Computer Science
Computer Science
The undergraduate program begins with a set of two courses that give students a solid background in object-oriented programming while exposing them to the breadth of issues that arise in computer science.
Construction Engineering
Construction Engineering
The University of Utah’s Construction Engineering program will teach you scientific, mathematical, engineering, and management principles so that you can plan, design, and build commercial and residential buildings.
Consumer and Community Studies
Consumer and Community Studies
The Consumer and Community Studies (CCS) program focuses on the well-being of households in terms of small-scale communities and large-scale environments.
Criminology
Criminology
The Criminology program provides students with an in-depth exposure to all facets of the criminal justice system.
Design
Design
The Design Major will use product design as a vehicle to investigate design research, human centered design principles, interface development, articulation of product forms, materials and digital manufacturing principles.
Disability Studies (Interdisciplinary)
Disability Studies (Interdisciplinary)
Disability Studies examines the concept of disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
Diversity
Diversity
The Diversity certificate is useful to students who are interested in understanding the causes and consequences of diversity and inequality.
Documentary Studies
Documentary Studies
This program will give you the tools to create, edit, and present documentary films, allowing you to share ideas, morals, and messages with the world.
Drawing
Drawing
If you want to improve your artistic skills and develop your talent for creative expression, consider minoring in Drawing.
Earth Science
Earth Science
If you are interested in learning more about your planet, consider minoring in Earth Sciences through the University of Utah’s prestigious program.
Earth Science Composite Teaching
Earth Science Composite Teaching
Provides students with the knowledge and skills to teach Earth Science, Physical Science and Integrated Science at the Secondary Education level.
Economics
Economics
Economists study social systems, focusing on issues related to decision making with scarce resources; the history, organization, and direction of firms and industries; and the structure and functions of social and economic institutions.
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
The Electrical Engineering curriculum prepares students with the knowldege and skills necessary to analyze and design complex electrical and electronic devices, software, and systems.
Elementary Education
Elementary Education
The Elementary Teacher Education Program provides broad preparation across many academic disciplines and concentrated professional training for teaching elementary school curriculum.
Engineering Entrepreneurship
Engineering Entrepreneurship
If you have an interest in engineering and want to be able to apply these scientific skills to the business world, consider completing the Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate.
English
English
Meets the needs of diverse students, including those preparing to be teachers, scholars and writers, and those pursuing other careers and professional studies that require strong analytic and linguistic skills.
English: Creative Writing
English: Creative Writing
This program will give you the skills you need to take the characters and adventures in your head and turn them into written, communicable stories.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Learn to follow trends, identify emerging opportunities, and pursue those possibilities through the creation of new products and services and/or start a company.
Environmental & Sustainability Studies
Environmental & Sustainability Studies
This degree provides an interdisciplinary understanding of ecological systems and stresses the importance of social responsibility, leadership, and a science-based focus on solutions.
Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
This degree will prepare students from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds interested in employment with private and public organizations and agencies that work with historically underserved populations.
Film & Media Arts
Film & Media Arts
This Bachelor of Arts program offers students the opportunity to examine closely the art form that defines our time through a series of courses covering the history, aesthetics, and criticism of the motion picture.
Finance
Finance
The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money, risk, how they are interrelated, and how money is budgeted and spent. Finance students will have several experiential learning opportunities in the field.
Financial Planning
Financial Planning
The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money, risk, how they are interrelated, and how money is budgeted and spent. Finance students will have several experiential learning opportunities in the field.
French
French
The French major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of French and Francophone cultures through the study of language, literature, and society.
Gender Studies
Gender Studies
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the complex interaction of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, and nationality.
Geographic Information Science
Geographic Information Science
Geographic information science (GIS) uses digital technologies to collect, assess, and analyze geographic data: the places, activities, and phenomena on the Earth that are stored in maps or images.
Geography
Geography
Geography is the study of natural Earth systems, human societies and the interaction between them. Geography bridges the physical and social sciences.
Geological Engineering
Geological Engineering
Graduates will utilize their backgrounds in engineering and earth science to provide solutions to engineering problems within the context of the natural world.
Geoscience
Geoscience
Geoscience educates students to apply the principles of chemistry, physics, math, and biology to understand the composition, structure, and history of the Earth, and the processes that govern them.
German
German
The German major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Germanic cultures through the study of the German language, literature, and society.
Gerontology
Gerontology
As a basic and applied science, gerontology examines specific changes in older individuals as well as the broader social issues confronting them.
Global Citizenship
Global Citizenship
Through this interdisciplinary minor, grounded on environmental and human rights, students will explore different perspectives on our global lives-- how can we take part in this new 21st-century lifestyle ethically and with intercultural awareness.
Hazards and Emergency Management
Hazards and Emergency Management
Hazards and emergency management addresses issues in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Health Communication
Health Communication
Health communication is the art of communicating with or for health organizations.
Health Promotion & Education
Health Promotion & Education
Learn to assist individuals, communities, and societies in adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyles through various avenues.
Health Society & Policy
Health Society & Policy
An interdisciplinary major that provides students with a strong foundation for a diverse set of careers, including healthcare administration, health professions, and health policy.
History
History
We study history to appreciate the varieties of human experience, to understand the present, and to plan for the future. Students learn about history across regions of the world and multiple periods of time.
Human Development and Family Studies
Human Development and Family Studies
Students in the CCS major gain an interdisciplinary understanding of marketplace and community influences on households.
Human Factors
Human Factors
Research and study in the field of Human Factors aims to improve human interaction with equipment, software, and other people in ways that will enhance performance, increase safety, and improve user satisfaction.
Information Systems
Information Systems
As a student in this program, you will learn the tools to manage the technical direction of business, solve technological issues, and implement new technological advances to enrich business operations.
Integrative Human Biology
Integrative Human Biology
Integrative Human Biology (IHB) is a field that integrates the biological and behavioral sciences as they apply to Homo sapiens.
Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship
Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship
If you want to develop the skills to start your own business, consider completing the Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Certificate.
International Studies
International Studies
The courses available through the International Studies Program give students descriptive, analytical, and methodological tools to help understand the world and the United States in a global context.
Italian
Italian
In this program, you can focus on the culture of ancient Italy, explore the world of Italian film, or examine how Italian culture has inspired and shaped the art and film of other countries throughout time.
Japanese
Japanese
The Japanese major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Japanese culture through the study of the Japanese language, literature, and society.
Kinesiology
Kinesiology
Programs in department: Athletic Training, Physiology, Exercise Science, Fitness Leadership, and Education Teacher Education (PETE). We have many fine programs.
Korean Studies
Korean Studies
The minor in Korean and Korean Studies allows students to develop fluency in Korean while also learning about Korean culture and diaspora.
Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies
The Latin American Studies Major and Minor provide students the opportunity to explore interdisciplinary approaches to Latin America.
Leadership Studies
Leadership Studies
Set an example, organize people and processes, and ultimately be a force for positive change with the Leadership Studies Minor at the University of Utah.
Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is an ideal major for today’s university student. It provides the intellectual satisfaction of learning how human language works, while at the same time developing the analytical skills necessary to be highly competitive on the job market.
Management
Management
Management skills apply to every organization and in every business discipline. The Management Major is designed to give students the skills they need to lead companies in all phases of development, from start up to maturity, and through challenging situations.
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers.
Materials Science & Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Materials science and engineering inter-twines numerous disciplines, including chemistry, physics and engineering, and is engaged in the discovery and development of new materials that can enrich everyday lives.
Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the science that deals with the logic of shape, quantity and arrangement. This major prepares students for postgraduate study or employment in a variety of professions requiring the ability to analyze problems and think critically.
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
The field of mechanical engineering (ME) is concerned with the mechanical, thermal, and fluid-flow aspects of mechanical systems, including computer and feedback control of complex systems.
Mechatronics
Mechatronics
Mechatronics is technology that combines electronics and mechanical engineering in a single device: for example, the software systems in modern vehicles or the Mars rover.
Media Studies
Media Studies
If you want to understand how we use, adapt, appropriate, and are affected by media, consider minoring in Media Studies at the University of Utah.
Medical Laboratory Science
Medical Laboratory Science
As a Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) student at the University of Utah, you will gain the knowledge and technical skills you need to work in a modern diagnostic medical laboratory.
Metallurgical Engineering
Metallurgical Engineering
Metallurgical engineering involves the study, innovation, design, implementation, and improvement of processes that transform mineral resources and metals into useful products that improve the quality of our lives.
Middle East Studies
Middle East Studies
Learn a new language, gain an appreciation for another culture, and become an active participant in today’s global world with the Middle East Studies program.
Military Science
(Army ROTC)
Military Science
(Army ROTC)
The Military Science Reserve Officer Training Corps (Army ROTC) program is a military training program for those who desire to serve in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer.
Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering
Mining provides the raw materials and energy resources needed to sustain modern civilization.
Modern Dance BFA
Modern Dance BFA
If you want to pursue your passion for creative expression, consider studying dance.
Music
Music
Pursue your passion and let your creativity shine through with the music program at the University of Utah.
Music BMus
Music BMus
If you want to make music your life’s work, consider the University of Utah’s music degree.
Music Technology
Music Technology
If you’re interested in music production and engineering, considering studying Music Technology.
Naval Science (Navy/Marine ROTC)
Naval Science (Navy/Marine ROTC)
The Naval Science Reserve Officer Training Corps (Navy/Marine ROTC) program is a military training program for those who desire to serve in the U.S. Navy or Marine Corps as a commissioned officer.
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
With the Nuclear Engineering Minor, you will gain the knowledge and skills you need to join the next generation of nuclear engineers.
Nursing
Nursing
The College of Nursing baccalaureate program prepares students to be generalists in clinical settings, for entry-level administrative positions, and for graduate work in nursing.
Nutrition
Nutrition
If you are passionate about food, exercise, and eating and living well, consider the minor in Nutrition with the University of Utah.
Operations Management
Operations Management
Operations Management involves working within an organization to oversee the quality and speed of business processes. OM students study a firm’s profitability, process flows, output quality, and supply chain.
Parks, Recreation & Tourism
Parks, Recreation & Tourism
The department offers the opportunity to study leisure theory and research, as well as applied topics related to the park, recreation, and tourism profession.
Peace & Conflict Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary program that enables students to study the dynamics of peace and conflict and to contribute to peaceable conditions in the home, the work place, and the world.
Pediatric Medical Research
Pediatric Medical Research
The Pediatric Medical Research minor will provide you with hands-on training and skills in pediatric medical research.
Persian
Persian
The Persian minor offers students the chance to learn an additional language and gain a deeper understanding of another culture.
Philosophy
Philosophy
At its simplest, Philosophy (Greek for 'the love of wisdom') is the study of knowledge, or "thinking about thinking". It is the rational investigation of questions about existence, knowledge, and ethics - "who am I?"
Physics
Physics
Physics is the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. Physics is a discipline that develops analytical thinking and problem solving skills.
Political Science
Political Science
Political science is a broad area of study focused on the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship, the uses and abuses of power, relations between nations, and many other important topics.
Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
With the minor in Portuguese, students will study not only the global language of Portuguese, but they will also explore the rich culture and history of Brazil.
Applied Positive Psychology
Applied Positive Psychology
Through the Applied Positive Psychology certificate, you will learn to apply positive psychology to topics such as intimate relationships, happiness and satisfaction, traumatic experiences, addictive thinking, and career and work.
Psychology
Psychology
Psychologists study human and animal behavior with the goals of understanding how they function in their respective natural worlds; and predicting, and alleviating behavioral and psychological maladjustment.
Quantitative Analysis of Markets & Organizations
Quantitative Analysis of Markets & Organizations
In this major, students learn to build economic models using quantitative and statistical analysis techniques.
Recreational Therapy
Recreational Therapy
Recreational therapists use individual and group counseling techniques to improve the overall well-being of individuals with injury, illness and/or disability to enable a greater quality of life.
Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Students of Religious Studies learn about the sociological and psychological factors which shape belief and often inform global conflict.
Russian
Russian
The Russian major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Russian culture through the study of the Russian language, literature, and society.
Secondary Education
Secondary Education
If you are passionate about a particular field and want to educate and train others in that topic, consider entering the world of secondary education.
Social Work BSW
Social Work BSW
Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. The B.S.W. prepares students for professional practice.
Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is an incredibly versatile undergraduate major that investigates the interrelationships between social order and social change in our personal lives, the communities we live in, and the world as a whole.
Spanish
Spanish
The Spanish major is intended for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Spanish culture through the study of the Spanish language, literature, and society.
Special Education
Special Education
The undergraduate Special Education teacher education program provides professional training for educating young children and students with disabilities.
Speech & Hearing Science
Speech & Hearing Science
The undergraduate major in Speech & Hearing Science (SPHS) is a pre-professional degree for speech language pathology and/or audiology.
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Training Program
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Training Program
This certificate provides the knowledge and treatment skills necessary to treat individuals with substance use disorders, as well as the families of these individuals.
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate prepares students to teach English to non-native English speakers in the United States or abroad.
Theatre
Theatre
Theatre Studies BA is a versatile degree that emphasizes the potential of theatre as one of the Liberal Arts. Originally intended as a basic course of study for potential theatre scholars and administrators.
Theatre BFA
Theatre BFA
There are four main Theatre BFA emphases: Actor Training Program (ATP), Musical Theatre Program (MTP), Performing Arts Design Program (PADP), and the Stage Management Program
Urban Ecology
Urban Ecology
The undergraduate program in urban planning is a pre-professional degree that provides an academic foundation for developing a career in understanding, analyzing, and planning the urban and small town environment.
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
The degree is designed to prepare students who are strong analytical thinkers and proficient writers. A degree in writing will prepare students for many careers and a variety of graduate school options.
Social Justice Advocacy
Social Justice Advocacy
If you want to become a more informed, aware individual who can be an advocate for action, consider the Social Justice Advocacy Certificate.
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