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Majors & Minors

Baylor offers more than 125 majors and minors. Explore our impressive job placement rates, success rates and starting salaries for each of our majors through the Baylor University Career Center.

Elite Opportunities
Also included here are our Elite Opportunities devoted to helping highly motivated students achieve ambitions academic, career and research goals. These highly-selective tracks benefit students by offering them individualized, in-depth advising from faculty, immersing them in research and giving them better opportunities for flexibility within their major while simultaneously preparing them for graduate studies or a successful career. Learn more here.

Find your major at Baylor University!
We are excited to offer this exciting new resource called MyMajors to help you as you explore the different majors and minors available at Baylor! Click on the link below, answer a few quick questions based on your interest and goals and see what majors could fit you best!

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Academic Program Inventory
Baylor offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in its twelve colleges and schools. Click below to view the official Academic Program Inventory. 

Academic Program Inventory

Secondary Majors
Secondary majors are similar to traditional majors in many respects, such as appearing on transcripts and requiring a set of proscribed courses but differ primarily in the fact that students taking a secondary major are not subject to the requirements of the Common Core. 

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Title Degree Department Major Minor
Accounting BBA Business Yes
Advertising Arts and Sciences Yes
American Sign Language Health & Human Sciences Yes
American Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Anthropology BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Apparel Design & Product Development BS Health & Human Sciences Yes
Apparel Merchandising BS Health & Human Sciences Yes Yes
Applied Mathematics BS Arts and Sciences Yes
Arabic Arts and Sciences Yes
Arabic and Middle East Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Archaeology Arts and Sciences Yes
Art History BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Asian Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Astronomy BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Astrophysics BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Aviation Administration BSA Arts and Sciences Yes
Aviation Sciences BSA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Biochemistry BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Bioinformatics BSI Engineering & Computer Science Yes
Biology BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Business Administration Business Yes
Business Fellows BBA Business Yes
Chemistry BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Child and Family Studies BS Health & Human Sciences Yes Yes
Chinese Arts and Sciences Yes
Choral Music BME Music Yes
Church Music BM Music Yes Yes
Civic Interfaith Studies Social Work Yes
Classics BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Communication BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Communication Sciences and Disorders BS Health & Human Sciences Yes
Communication Specialist BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Composition BM Music Yes
Computer Science BA, BSCS Engineering & Computer Science; BA in Arts & Sciences Yes Yes
Computer Science Fellows BSC Engineering & Computer Science Yes
Corporate Communication Arts and Sciences Yes
Creative Writing Arts and Sciences Yes
Criminal Justice Arts and Sciences Yes
Dance Health & Human Sciences
Data Science BSI Engineering & Computer Science Yes Yes
Earth Science BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Economics BA, BBA, BS Business; BA in Arts & Sciences Yes Yes
Education - Elementary Education BSED Education Yes
Education - Middle Grade English, Language Arts, and Reading BSED Education Yes
Education - Middle Grade Mathematics BSED Education Yes
Education - Middle Grade Science BSED Education Yes
Education - Middle Grade Social Studies BSED Education Yes
Education - Secondary English, Language Arts, and Reading BSED Education Yes
Education - Secondary Life Science BSED Education Yes
Education - Secondary Mathematics BSED Education Yes
Education - Secondary Physical Sciences BSED Education Yes
Education - Secondary Social Studies BSED Education Yes
Education - Spanish All Level BSED Education Yes
Education - Special Education BSED Education Yes
Education Certification - Deaf Education Health & Human Sciences
Education Certification - English as a Second Language Education
Education Certification - Gifted & Talented Education
Education Certification - Music Education BME Music Yes
Education Certification - Physical Education BSED Health & Human Sciences Yes
Education Concentration for Biology Majors Education Yes
Education Concentration for Health Science Studies Majors Education Yes
Education Concentration for History Majors Education Yes
Education Concentration for Math Majors Education Yes
Educational Psychology Education Yes
Electrical and Computer Engineering BSECE Engineering & Computer Science Yes
Engineering BSE Engineering & Computer Science Yes Yes
English BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation BBA Business Yes Yes
Environmental Health Science BS Arts and Sciences Yes
Environmental Science BS Arts and Sciences Yes
Environmental Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Exercise Physiology BS Health & Human Sciences Yes
Family & Consumer Sciences BS Health & Human Sciences Yes Yes
Film and Digital Media BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Finance BBA Business Yes
Forensic Science Arts and Sciences Yes
French BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Geology BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Geophysics BS Arts and Sciences Yes
German BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Gerontology Social Work Yes
Great Texts of the Western Tradition BA Honors Yes Yes
Greek BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Greek and Roman Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Health Science Studies BS Health & Human Sciences Yes
Health, Kinesiology, and Leisure Studies BSED Health & Human Sciences Yes
History BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Human Resource Management BBA Business Yes
Humanities Research Fellows BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Informal Education Education Yes
Instrumental Music BME Music Yes
Interior Design BS Health & Human Sciences Yes
International Business BBA Business Yes
International Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Italian Arts and Sciences Yes
Japanese Arts and Sciences Yes
Journalism BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Latin BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Latin American Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Leadership in Medicine Arts and Sciences Yes
Leadership Studies Education Yes
Legal Reasoning and Analysis Arts and Sciences Yes
Linguistics BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Management BBA Business Yes
Management Information Systems BBA Business Yes
Marketing BBA Business Yes
Mathematics BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Mechanical Engineering BSME Engineering & Computer Science Yes
Media Management Arts and Sciences Yes
Medical Humanities BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Military Studies Arts and Sciences Yes
Museum Studies BA Museum Studies Yes Yes
Music BA Music Yes Yes
Music History and Literature BM Music Yes
Neuroscience BS Arts and Sciences Yes
News Editorial Arts and Sciences Yes
Nursing BSN Nursing Yes
Nutrition Sciences BS Health & Human Sciences Yes Yes
Outdoor Education & Leadership Health & Human Sciences Yes
Performance BM Music Yes
Philosophy BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Photojournalism Arts and Sciences Yes
Physics BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Piano Pedagogy BM Music Yes
Political Science BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Poverty Studies and Social Justice Social Work Yes
Pre-Dentistry Arts and Sciences
Pre-Law Arts and Sciences
Pre-Medicine Arts and Sciences
Pre-Occupational Therapy Arts and Sciences
Pre-Optometry Arts and Sciences
Pre-Pharmacy Arts and Sciences
Pre-Physical Therapy Arts and Sciences
Pre-Physician Assistant Arts and Sciences
Pre-Podiatry Health & Human Sciences
Pre-Veterinary Medicine Arts and Sciences
Professional Selling BBA Business Yes
Professional Writing and Rhetoric BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Psychology BA, BS Arts and Sciences Yes
Public Health BSPH Health & Human Sciences Yes
Public Relations Arts and Sciences Yes
Recreation and Leisure Services BSED Health & Human Services Yes
Recreation Ministry Health & Human Sciences Yes
Religion BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Rhetoric and Public Discourse Arts and Sciences Yes
Risk Management and Insurance BBA Business Yes
Russian BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Science Research Fellows BS Arts and Sciences Yes
Slavic and East European Studies BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Social Work BSW Social Work Yes
Sociology BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Spanish BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Statistics BA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Studio Art BA, BFA Arts and Sciences Yes Yes
Supply Chain Management BBA Business Yes
Theatre Arts BA Arts and Sciences Yes
Theatre Design and Technology BFA Arts and Sciences Yes
Theatre Performance BFA Arts and Sciences Yes
Theory BM Music Yes
University Scholars BA Honors Yes
Women's and Gender Studies Arts and Sciences Yes
World Affairs Arts and Sciences Yes

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