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LIST OF MAJORS AND OPTIONS

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College of Arts and Sciences

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Anthropology: Including applied anthropology.
American ethnic studies
Art: Including art history, ceramics, digital arts, drawing, graphic design, illustration, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Biochemistry
Biology: Including microbiology and fisheries, wildlife, and conservation biology (biodiversity and conservation, fisheries ecology and management, wildlife ecology and management).
Chemistry: Including chemical science.
Communication studies: Including legal, organizational, political, relational, and rhetorical.
Dance
Economics
English: Including literature, literature and creative writing, and literature with teaching certification.
Geography: Including pre-planning.
Geology
History
Kinesiology: Including health fitness instructor, nutrition and exercise science.
Mass communications: Including advertising, digital media (print and electronic), and public relations.
Mathematics: Including actuarial and applied mathematics.
Modern languages: Including French, German, Spanish/Hispanic literature, and Spanish/Hispanic studies.
Music: Including applied music (composition, instrumental performance, music theatre, vocal performance) and music education.
Philosophy: Including interdisciplinary, pre-business, pre-graduate school, pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-ministry, and standard.
Physics
Political science
Pre-law
Psychology
Social work
Sociology: See also criminology
Statistics
Theatre
Women’s studies

Health professions
Health professional programs including clinical laboratory science (medical technology), pre-chiropractic, pre-dentistry, dental hygiene, pre-health information management, pre-medicine (allopathic, osteopathic, podiatric), pre-nursing, pre-occupational therapy, pre-optometry, pre-pharmacy, pre-physical therapy, pre-respiratory therapy, and pre-veterinary medicine.

Interdisciplinary majors: Including humanities, life science, physical science, and social science.

Also available:
Primary texts certificate

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College of Engineering

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General engineering: Undeclared.
Architectural engineering: Including LEED and sustainability
Biological systems engineering: Including biological, environmental, and machinery.
Chemical engineering
Civil engineering: Including construction, environmental, general, and structural.
Computing and information sciences: Including computer hardware and software engineering.
Construction science and management
Electrical engineering/computer engineering: Including bioengineering, computer hardware, digital systems, general, power engineering, and software engineering.
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering: Including engineering management, ergonomics, manufacturing engineering, and operations research.
Mechanical engineering: Including nuclear engineering.

College of Business Administration

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Accounting
Business administration
Entrepreneurship
Finance: Including controllership, financial management, and financial services.
Management and management information systems: Including general management, human resources management, and operations and supply chain management.
Marketing

Also available:
International business certificate and integrated investment management certificate.

College of Education

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Elementary education
Secondary education: Including art, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth science, English, English/journalism, journalism, mathematics, modern languages, physics, social studies, and speech.

Also available:
Special education, English as a Second Language (ESL), and teaching degrees in other K-State colleges (agriculture, family and consumer sciences, music).

 

College of Agriculture

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General agriculture: undeclared.
Agribusiness: Including agribusiness, food industry economics, and international agribusiness.
Agricultural communications and journalism: Including agriculture and environment.
Agricultural economics: Including farm management, quantitative, and specialty (pre-law, pre-veterinary, and natural resource/environmental economics).
Agricultural education
Agricultural technology management
Agronomy: Including business and industry, consulting and production, plant science and biotechnology, range management, and soil and environmental science.
Animal sciences and industry: Including animal products, bioscience/biotechnology, business, communications, production management, and science/pre-veterinary.
Bakery science and management: Including cereal chemistry and production management.
Feed science and management
Food science and industry: Including food business and operations management and food science (pre-medicine and pre-pharmacy).
Horticulture: Including fruit and vegetable production, golf course management, greenhouse and nursery management, horticultural science, horticultural therapy, landscape management, landscape design, public horticulture, and sports turf operations management.
Milling science and management: Including chemistry, management, and operations.
Park management and conservation: Including interpretation, law enforcement ranger, park manager, and recreation business.
Pre-veterinary medicine (three years)
Wildlife and outdoor enterprise management

College of Human Ecology

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Apparel and textiles: Including apparel design and production and apparel marketing.
Athletic training
Communication sciences and disorders
Dietetics: Including coordinated and didactic.
Early childhood education
Ecología humana
Family studies and human services
: Including general and personal financial planning.
Hotel and restaurant management
Human ecology: Including family and consumer sciences education, general, and undeclared.
Interior design
Nutrition and kinesiology dual degrees: See human nutrition.
Nutritional sciences: Including medically related fields, pre-dentistry, and pre-medicine. See human nutrition.
Public health nutrition: See human nutrition.

College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

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Architecture, planning, and design: Including architecture, interior architecture and product design, landscape architecture, and regional and community planning.

College of Technology and Aviation (K-State at Salina)

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Bachelor's degrees
Aviation maintenance
Computer systems technology
Electronic and computer engineering technology
Family studies and human services
Mechanical engineering technology
Professional pilot
Technology management

Associate degrees
Airframe and powerplant (certificate)
Applied business
Applied technologies
Aviation certificates
Aviation maintenance
Avionics maintenance technology (certificate)
Computer systems technology
Digital media technology
Electronic and computer engineering technology
Mechanical engineering technology
Professional pilot
Web development technology

College of Veterinary Medicine

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Veterinary medicine: Pre-veterinary medicine programs are available in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture.

Secondary majors

Secondary majors: Including gerontology, international studies, Latin American studies, and natural resources and environmental sciences.

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Minors

Agribusiness
Agricultural economics
Agricultural technology management
Agronomy
Animal sciences and industry
Anthropology
Applied genomics and biotechnology

Aviation safety
Bakery science: See grain science and industry
Biology
Business administration
Cereal chemistry: See grain science and industry
Chemistry
Chinese:
see modern languages
Community planning: See architecture, planning, and design
Computing and information sciences
Contemporary citizenship in agriculture: See agriculture
Dance
Digital systems: See engineering
East Asian studies
Economics
Embedded systems
English
Entomology: See agriculture
Feed science and management
Food science
French: See modern languages
Geography
Geology
German: See modern languages
History
Horticulture
International agriculture: See agriculture
Japanese: See modern languages
Jazz studies
Leadership studies
Manufacturing systems: See engineering
Mass communications
Military leadership: See military science
Music
Operations research: See industrial and manufacturing systems engineering
Philosophy
Physics
Plant pathology: See agriculture
Political science
Rhetoric/communication: See communication studies
Russian: See modern languages
Statistics
Spanish: See modern languages
Theatre
Women’s studies

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Continuing Education

Continuing Education: Including K-State's Distance Education, professional development, and additional degree programs.

Graduate studies

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