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College of Arts and Sciences
Anthropology: Including applied anthropology.
Art: Including art history, ceramics, digital arts, drawing, graphic design, illustration,
metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, photography, pre-art therapy, printmaking,
and sculpture.
Biochemistry
Biology: Including microbiology, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation biology.
Chemistry: Including chemical science.
Criminology
Dance
Economics
English: Including literature, creative writing, and literature with teaching certification.
Geography: Including pre-planning.
Geology
History
Kinesiology: Including health fitness instructor, nutrition and exercise sciences.
Mass communications: Including advertising, electronic journalism, electronic media, print journalism, and public relations.
Mathematics
Modern languages: Including French, German, and Spanish.
Music: Including applied music (composition, music theatre, instrumental performance, 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
Speech communication
Statistics
Theatre: See also dance and music.
Women’s studies
Also
available:
Health
professions: Including clinical laboratory science (medical technology), pre-dentistry, 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 sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
Primary
texts certificate
College of Engineering
General engineering: undeclared.
Architectural
engineering
Biological
and agricultural engineering: Including biological, environmental, general, and machinery.
Chemical engineering: Including engineering materials and petroleum.
Civil engineering: Including construction, environmental, general, and structural engineering options.
Computing and information
sciences: Including computer hardware and software engineering.
Construction
science and management
Electrical engineering/computer
engineering: Including bioengineering, computer hardware, digital systems, power engineering,
and software engineering.
Industrial and manufacturing
systems engineering: Including engineering management, ergonomics, manufacturing engineering, and operations research.
Mechanical and
nuclear engineering: Including aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, composite materials,
nuclear engineering, and power systems.
College of Business Administration
Accounting
Business administration
Finance: Including controllership, financial management, and financial services.
Management: Including general management, human resources management, operations management, and supply chain management.
Management
information systems
Marketing: Including agribusiness and marketing.
Also
available:
International
business certificate
College of Education
Elementary
education
Secondary
education: Including art, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth science, English,
English/journalism, journalism, mathematics, modern languages, physics, social
studies, and speech.
Special education
Also available:
Middle-level programs and English as a Second Language (ESL).
College of Agriculture
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.
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 and biotechnology, business, communications, production management,
and science and 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.
Horticulture: Including fruit and vegetable production, golf course management, greenhouse
management, horticultural science, horticultural therapy, landscape and turf management, landscape
design, pre-occupational theray, and nursery 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
College of Human Ecology
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
Family studies and
human services: Including family life and community services, general, life span human development, and personal
financial planning.
Hotel
and restaurant management
Human ecology: including family
and consumer sciences education and general.
Interior design
Nutrition and exercise sciences dual degrees: See human
nutrition.
Nutritional sciences: Including medically related
fields, pre-dental, and pre-medical. See human
nutrition.
Public health nutrition: See human
nutrition.
College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
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)
Bachelor’s
degrees
Aeronautical
technology: Including aviation
maintenance and professional pilot.
Computer systems technology/web
development technology
Electronic and computer engineering
technology
Mechanical engineering technology
Technology management
Associate degrees
Airframe and
powerplant (certificate)
Applied business
Aviation maintenance
Computer systems technology
Construction engineering technology
Electronic and computer
engineering technology
Mechanical engineering technology
Professional pilot
Web development technology
College of Veterinary Medicine
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 American ethnic studies, gerontology, international studies, Latin American studies, natural resources, and environmental sciences.
Minors
Agribusiness
Agricultural economics
Agricultural technology
management
Agronomy
American ethnic studies: See secondary
majors
Animal sciences and
industry
Anthropology
Aviation safety
Bakery science: See grain
science and industry
Biology
Business administration
Cereal chemistry: See grain
science and industry
Chemistry
Computing and information sciences
Contemporary citizenship in agriculture: See Agriculture
Dance
Digital systems: See electrical engineering/computer engineering
East Asian studies
Economics
Embedded systems
English
Engineering management: See engineering
Entomology
Ergonomics and safety: See engineering
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
Military leadership: See military
science
Music
Operations research: See industrial and manufacturing systems engineering
Philosophy
Physics
Plant pathology: See agriculture
Political science
Regional and community planning: See landscape
architecture
Rhetoric/communication: See speech
communication
Russian: See modern languages
Statistics
Spanish: See modern
languages
Theatre
Women’s
studies
Graduate studies
63 master's programs and 43 doctoral programs

