Agriculture & Natural Resources
An interdisciplinary major designed for students who want broad training in agricultural, environmental, and/or health sciences, with content that does not readily align with any one departmentor major.
Animal Science
Animal science majors learn about the nutrition, breeding, behavior, and management of food animals. Topics covered include dairy science, poultry science, and livestock production.
Biological Sciences
Biology is the study of life, individual organisms, their communities, and the systems, cells, and processes that make up living matter.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering majors learn how to use engineering to solve health and medical problems.
Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering majors learn how to put chemicals to work. Classes cover such topics as improving the way factories use chemicals to make products and solving problems such as rust and pollution.
Chemistry
As a chemistry major, you’ll explore many different topics, from the chemical basis for life to the environmental problems caused by chemicals.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) major provides an integrated perspective on the origins and complex interactions of life on Earth, from microbes to rainforests, while building a comprehensive foundation in the biological sciences and emphasizing undergraduate research experiences.
Engineering Physics
“Engineering physics” refers to the use of physics to solve technical problems in manufacturing or similar mechanical systems.
Environmental Engineering
Students in environmental engineering learn to design, develop, and evaluate structures, equipment, and systems that protect the environment from the effects of human activity and that improve public health and well-being.
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences at UConn studies the living and nonliving parts of Earth, and evaluates human impacts to promote informed environmental decisions.
Geoscience
Geoscience students look at the earth and the forces acting upon it, including the solids, liquids, and gasses that make it up.
Individualized Major
An individualized major is a self-designed, interdisciplinary major that allows you to create a program of study to fit your own specific interests.
Marine Sciences
Students of marine sciences study all aspects of the ocean, making use of both the biological and the physical sciences.
Mathematics / Physics
In this track, which is available only for a BS degree, a student can choose a physics emphasis (Track A, with an advisor in the physics department) or a math emphasis (Track B, with an advisor in the math department).
Molecular and Cell Biology
MCB majors explore cells, their characteristics, parts, and chemical processes. You’ll pay special attention to how molecules control a cell’s activities and growth.
Natural Resources
Natural resources majors learn how to save natural areas and the plants and animals that live in them. They study how to use natural resources, such as trees, in ways that won’t harm the environment.
Physics
Physics majors seek to understand the laws that govern the universe. From gigantic stars trillions of miles away to the subatomic particles within our own bodies, physics takes on matter and energy in all its forms
Physiology and Neurobiology
This major deals with the living organism on the tissue, organ and organ system level. It is particularly interested in how the nervous and endocrine (hormonal) systems regulate all other systems to maintain homeostasis in the body.
Structural Biology and Biophysics
An area of study that employs principles and techniques of Chemistry and Physics to investigate the three-dimensional structure and function of biological macromolecules in a living organism.
Sustainable Plant & Soil Systems
The Sustainable Plant and Soil Systems major focuses on the science and practices associated with sustainable plant production and/or use within managed systems.