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Explore your options at IU

Your journey starts with choice. At IU Bloomington, you can explore 200+ majors that all lead to a valuable degree and career-ready skills. Follow your interests, discover new ones, and know that IU will give you the flexibility and support to find the path that’s right for you. And if your goals change, expert advisors will help you stay on track.

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95%of graduates accept full-time employment or continue their education

92% of IU seniors feel they’ve acquired job- or work-related knowledge and skills

66%of students change their major at least once

Choose a path to explore

Use the drop-down menu to discover how your interests connect to majors, schools, and future career opportunities. Whether you already have a direction in mind or want to explore a few possibilities, IU Bloomington gives you the time and resources to make confident choices. Here, you can wait to declare a major until your sophomore year—and your academic advisor will help you plan your path to your degree and your future.

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Arts, Sports, and Entertainment

Students interested in sports marketing can master industry skills studying sports media and journalism in The Media School or sports marketing and management in the School of Public Health. Performing arts majors span between the Jacobs School of Music and the College of Arts and Sciences. Study fashion design or merchandising in The Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design or fashion media in The Media School. Explore arts, sports, and entertainment majors and career options below.

Arts and Design

Entertainment and Sports

Performing Arts

Business

Business takes on many forms—do you want to build a company? Work with people? Manage an arts venue or tourist facilities and destinations? Lead a nonprofit? You’ll gain skills that make you highly marketable to employers by studying accounting, finance or entrepreneurship and corporate innovation in the Kelley School of Business. Earn your degree in tourism, hospitality, and event management from the School of Public Health, or nonprofit management or human resource management from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Pursue business on a global scale with a degree in international studies from the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Explore the business career community to learn more.

Business, Finance, & Management

Human Resources & Training

Marketing, Advertising, & Public Relations

Retail & Apparel

Sales

Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Planning

Communication and Culture

Your interests lie in culture, language, communication, and the humanities and you want to pursue a career in communicating with large audiences through media, increasing intercultural communication, examining and improving social institutions, or preserving human culture. Explore majors from journalism in The Media School to management and human organization in the College of Arts and Sciences to counseling and student services in the School of Education. See all the ways you can study communication and culture at IU.

Humanities, Museums, and Libraries

Journalism, Media, and Communication

Language and Culture

Social Science

Writing and Publishing

Government and Nonprofit

Pursue your career in government or leading nonprofit organizations with a degree in public affairs through the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs where you’ll study law and public policy, policy analysis, and nonprofit management and leadership. Prepare for law school with a major in criminal justice, political science, or psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, or international studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Learn more about the government and non-profit communities.

Government, Politics, & Public Service

Law

Nonprofit, Philanthropy, & Fundraising

Health and Human Services

Work with athletes as an exercise major or with kids and families as a human development major in the School of Public Health. Pursue a career in medicine or psychology with a neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences or study technology designed for health care with a major in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Whether you’re looking for a specialized program, a strong background in the sciences to prepare for professional school, or a major that leads to employment in a health and human services industry, check out the options below.

Counseling, Helping, and Social Service

Education

Healthcare

IT, Data, and Engineering

Learn to invent, design, and repurpose technology to solve complex problems, work with computer-based information systems, or solve real-world problems through research in science, economics, business, engineering, or more. Study intelligent systems and engineering or data science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Study mathematics, statistics, or biotechnology in the College of Arts and Sciences or game design in The Media School. Check out the epidemiology major in the School of Public Health and learn about public health intervention and prevention programs. Explore these majors and more.

Analysis, Math, Statistics, and Engineering

Computer Science and Information Technology

Science

Science majors lead to careers in research, government work, and teaching by honing your skills in observation, research and experimentation, and relevant technologies. Check out the epidemiology major in the School of Public Health and learn about public health intervention and prevention programs. Major in environmental and sustainability studies, neuroscience, biology, animal behavior, astronomy, and more in the College of Arts and Sciences. Learn more about the ways to expand your interest in science.

Environmental

Life Science

Physical Science

"The options are limitless at IU, and students have the opportunity to major in any school and take classes in others."

Chutavion W.Human biology major and psychology minor

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