Areas of Study
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All of the University of Chicago's nearly 70 majors and 60 minors, as well as dozens of areas of specialized study and pre-professional preparation, are part of one undergraduate College. Full-time are on hand to help students navigate these opportunities from the moment students set foot on campus until they have completed their degree.\ \ Browse our full list of programs below, or use the filter buttons to browse by type.
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Anthropology
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m - ##### Applied Mathematics, Mathematics
S - ##### Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Archaeology
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m - ##### Archaeology and Art of the Ancient Near East, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Architectural Studies
m - ##### Architectural Studies, Art History
m - ##### Armenian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Art History
M
m - ##### Astronomy and Astrophysics
m - ##### Astrophysics
M - ##### Behavioral Sciences
C - ##### Big Problems
I - ##### Biological Chemistry
M - ##### Biological Sciences
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m
C
- Cancer Biology
- Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Computational Neuroscience
- Ecology and Evolution
- Endocrinology
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Neuroscience
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Business
C - ##### Business German
m - ##### Cancer Biology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Catalan, Romance Languages and Literatures
m - ##### Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Chemistry
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m
J - ##### Chicago Studies
I - ##### Cinema and Media Studies
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m - ##### Classical Hebrew Language and Civilization, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Classical Studies
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m
- Attic Greek
- Greek and Roman Cultures
- Language and Literature
- Language Intensive
- Latin
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Climate and Energy Careers
C - ##### Climate and Sustainable Growth
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m - ##### Clinical and Translational Science
I - ##### Cognitive Science
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m - ##### Comparative Human Development
M - ##### Comparative Literature
M - ##### Computational Analysis and Public Policy
J - ##### Computational and Applied Mathematics
M - ##### Computational Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
m - ##### Computational Social Science
m - ##### Computer Science
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m
J
C - ##### Creative Writing
M - ##### Cuneiform Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S
- Assyriology
- Hittitology
- Sumerology
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Data Science
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m - ##### Democracy Studies
m - ##### Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History
J - ##### Discipline-Specific Academic Opportunities
AO - ##### East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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m
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
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Ecology and Evolution, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Economics
M - ##### Education and Society
m - ##### Education Professions
C - ##### Egyptology/Egyptian Languages and Civilizations, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Endocrinology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Engineering
C - ##### Engineering, Molecular
M
m
- Bioengineering
- Chemical and Soft Materials Engineering
- Quantum Engineering
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English and Creative Writing, English Language and Literature
m - ##### English Language and Literature
M - ##### Entrepreneurship
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C - ##### Environment, Geography, and Urbanization
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m - ##### Environmental Science
M - ##### French, Romance Languages and Literatures
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m
S - ##### Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
M - ##### Gaming
C - ##### Gender and Sexuality Studies
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m - ##### Genetics, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Geographic Information Science
m - ##### Geophysical Sciences
M - ##### Germanic Studies
M
m
- German
- Norwegian
- Yiddish
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Global Health Sciences, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Global Studies
M - ##### Health and Society
m - ##### Healthcare
C - ##### History
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m - ##### History, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
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m - ##### Human Rights
M
m - ##### Humanities
J - ##### Immunology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Inequality, Social Problems, and Change
m - ##### Inquiry and Research in the Humanities
M - ##### International Relations
J - ##### Islamic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
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- Arabic
- Armenian
- Modern Hebrew
- Kazakh
- Persian
- Turkish
- Uzbek
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Israeli and Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Italian, Romance Languages and Literatures
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m
S - ##### Jewish Studies
M
m - ##### Kreyòl and Haitian Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
m - ##### Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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m
J - ##### Latin American and Iberian Languages, Romance Languages and Literatures
M - ##### Law
C - ##### Law, Letters, and Society
M - ##### Linguistics
M
m
- American Sign Language
- Basque
- Modern Greek
- Swahili
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Mathematics
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m
J
- Applied Mathematics
- Mathematics with a Specialization in Economics
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Media Arts and Design
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m
C - ##### Medieval Studies
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m - ##### Microbiology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Middle Eastern Studies
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m
J
- Akkadian
- Ancient Anatolian Languages
- Arabic
- Aramaic (Syriac)
- Archaeology and Art of the Ancient Near East
- Armenian
- Classical Hebrew Language and Civilization
- Cuneiform Studies
- Egyptian
- Egyptology/Egyptian Language and Civilizations
- Ge'ez (Classic Ethiopic)
- Hebrew
- Islamic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies
- Kazakh
- Near Eastern Judaica
- Persian
- Sumerian
- Turkish
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Music
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m - ##### Neuroscience
M
m - ##### Norwegian Studies
m - ##### Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse
I - ##### Persian and Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Philosophy
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m
- Philosophy and Allied Fields
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Physical Sciences
C - ##### Physics
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m - ##### Policy and Social Impact
C - ##### Political Science
M - ##### Portuguese, Romance Languages and Literatures
m - ##### Psychology
M - ##### Public Policy Studies
M
J - ##### Quantitative Biology, Biological Sciences
S - ##### Quantitative Social Analysis
m - ##### Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity (RDI)
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m - ##### Religious Studies
M
m - ##### Renaissance Studies
m - ##### Romance Languages and Literatures
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m
- Catalan
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Haitian Creole (Kreyòl)
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Russian and East European Studies
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m
- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
- Czech
- East European
- General Slavic
- Polish
- Russian
- South Slavic
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Science Communication and Public Discourse
m - ##### Semitic Languages and Literatures, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Social Sciences
J - ##### Social Service Administration
J - ##### Sociology
M - ##### South Asian Languages and Civilizations
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m
- Bangla (Bengali)
- Hindi
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Pali
- Sanskrit
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Tibetan
- Urdu
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Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures
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m
S - ##### Statistics
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m
J - ##### Theater and Performance Studies
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m - ##### Turkish and Ottoman Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
S - ##### Visual Arts
M
m - ##### Yiddish Studies
m