Still deciding on a major? Apply to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as an open major and work closely with an advisor to select a program that fits your interests.
Economists study how societies allocate limited resources to achieve competing ends. They employ empirical and deductive methods to analyze incentives, constraints, organizational forms, and market forces.
As an ASL student, you will develop facility in using a language that is comparable in complexity and expressiveness to oral languages but that operates in a different sensory channel.
Biology is at the heart of some of today’s biggest opportunities and challenges, such as developing products related to human health, understanding the relationships among the many species that inhabit Earth, and managing human impacts on the environment.
If you're interested in health care, laboratory work, producing and using scientific data, and analytical problem solving, then Medical Laboratory Science may be the career for you.
Biomedical Engineering links biology, medicine, and engineering to improve human health. Many Engineering students choose this major as preparation for medical school.
Chemical Engineering involves the industrial application of chemicals to new inventions or to improve the world. Chemical engineers use microbes to produce pharmaceuticals and chemicals, develop new sources of energy, create artificial organs, and design the next generation of polymers.
Medical imaging, designing new computer chips, developing advanced robotic control systems, and creating new generations of wireless communication devices.
The ethics and public policy major emphasizes the study of reasoning and prepares students to bring a sophisticated, cross-disciplinary perspective to diverse fields such as business, government, urban and regional planning, social work, and law.
Iowa offers excellent teacher education programs that prepare students to seek licensure to teach at the secondary level (grades 5-12) in art, English, mathematics, music, science, social studies, or a world language.
The Department of History encourages students to develop an understanding of change--how it happens and why it happens the way it does--that enables them to engage our dynamic world as active and informed citizens.
Iowa offers programs in Aerospace Studies (Air Force ROTC) and Military Science (Army ROTC) for students pursuing a college education while working toward a commission as an officer.
Iowa is one of the premier institutions in the country for nursing education. Nursing is not just a major, but a career with limitless opportunities to work in a variety of settings and impact numerous populations.
Are you a hardworking artist who loves the challenge and collaboration of bringing stories to life on stage? Or are you still exploring your creative passions or looking to develop your unique artistic voice?
A degree in elementary education prepares students for licensure to teach kindergarten through sixth grade and includes opportunities to specialize in teaching a specific area such as art, language arts, or reading.
The Environmental Policy and Planning major at Iowa empowers students to address pressing environmental challenges through policy or planning pathways.
Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of communities. This is a collaborative, varied field that attracts people who want to improve human health using skills from areas such as behavioral and social science, environmental science, math and statistics, laboratory science, and policy development.
English and Creative Writing majors learn to think, read, and write critically and creatively about how literature and language influence individuals and society.
If you are interested in a career in education or a helping profession but you do not wish to pursue classroom teaching, a degree in Education Studies and Human Relations may be right for you.
The science studies BS major offers preparation for students considering jobs teaching science in schools or in informal learning settings such as park naturalists or museum educators.
The need for helping professionals in schools and rural communities continues to grow. You can make a lasting difference by studying human behaviors and helping processes.
The Applied Climate Science and Energy Technologies (ACSET) Certificate program is designed to empower students to address the challenges posed by climate change and the imperative for sustainable energy solutions.
