What You Can Do with a Major in...

When you earn a degree from DU, doors open. Our degrees lead students to discover all DU has to offer while focusing on traditional or brand-new majors. So, take a look at the DU's majors and find out how they'll prepare you for life after school.

Major in electronic media arts design and:

  • fend off an identity crisis as a brand manager. Corporations employ brand managers with design and marketing skills to create and oversee the company's identity and image.
  • weave a wicked Web as a Web architect, Web designer or Webmaster. With Web savvy and an eye for design, you can build, improve or manage exciting and sophisticated sites.
  • get in the game as a video game developer. Desktop video production and 3-D modeling skills will help you create games or special effects for everything from educational presentations to television ads.

Major in anthropology and:

  • solve mysteries as a forensic anthropologist. A background in biology, culture and human environments will prime you for work in a museum, studying the remains of vanished cultures, or even a police crime lab.
  • sift through the dirt as an archaeologist. Join an archaeology firm and contribute to knowledge about earlier civilizations through the artifacts you uncover on a dig.
  • study consumer habits as a corporate anthropologist. Put your knowledge of human behavior to work identifying consumer preferences and patterns.

Major in statistics and:

  • troubleshoot complex business problems as an independent consultant who knows how to interpret data. An understanding of predictive modeling will allow you to help clients prepare for change.
  • look for patterns and trends in everything from census data to employment statistics as a government analyst.
  • help a business organize production and deliver quality products as an operations manager. Your analytic skills will help your company streamline and maximize its procedures.

Major in electrical engineering and:

  • usher a proposed product from design to manufacture as a project team leader. With a broad understanding of all the engineering disciplines, you will understand how different experts interface.
  • take on design tasks like system architecture, component selection and production troubleshooting as an electronics systems engineer. Opportunities await you in everything from the aerospace industry to consumer electronics.
  • design and implement the hardware and software needed to ensure top performance as a control systems engineer. You might work for a transit agency or a biomedical company, a telecommunications firm or a utility company.

Major in psychology and:

  • match people to ideal jobs and settings as an industrial-organizational psychologist. By applying psychological principles and research methods to the workplace, you can help your coworkers improve productivity and quality of their lives.
  • make life better for your clients as a clinical psychologist. You may work with mentally and emotionally troubled clients in a counseling center or treat patients coping with chronic pain, illness and neurological conditions.
  • advance our understanding of behavioral patterns as an experimental or research psychologist. Whether you study rats or monkeys or humans, you will add to knowledge about motivation, thought, attention, learning and memory.

Major in microbiology and:

  • modify microorganisms and manipulate genes as a biotechnologist. You'll be put to work making medicines and products to improve human health.
  • safeguard the planet's health as an environmental scientist. Nonprofit and government agencies need people like you to determine the impact of biological, chemical and geophysical activity on the environment.
  • get up close and personal with bacteria as an immunologist. In pharmaceutical companies and research labs, you can investigate bacterial growth, metabolism, diversity and evolution to learn more about the body's defense against disease.

Major in international studies and:

  • serve your country as a diplomat or analyst. Use your cross-cultural and critical-thinking skills at the State Department or at any number of agencies dedicated to gathering and interpreting data.
  • make your mark in international business. With globalization on the rise, you can help a company introduce its products to new markets.
  • foster understanding as an interpreter. Whether you're interpreting oral communication or translating the written word, you'll be in demand with corporations, law firms and publishing companies that do business overseas.