Undergraduate Programs

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Brown offers more than 80 concentrations, what some colleges call majors. You'll sample courses in a wide range of subjects before immersing yourself in one of these focused areas. To complement your concentration, you may also choose to complete one of several interdisciplinary undergraduate certificates.

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Anthropology

A.B.  
Anthropology is the study of human beings from all times and all places, offering a holistic, comparative, international, and humanistic perspective. In studying and interpreting the vast range of similarities and differences in human societies and cultures, anthropologists also seek to understand how people themselves make sense of the world in which they live.
Department of Anthropology
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Behavioral Decision Sciences

A.B.  
Leading to a Bachelor of Arts, the study of decision making at Brown covers descriptive questions like how people, institutions, and nations make judgments and decisions; normative questions about rationality, such as what constitutes the best judgments and decisions; and prescriptive questions, such as how the process of decision making can be improved to make actual decisions closer to optimal ones.
Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
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Biomedical Engineering

Sc.B.  
The Sc.B. program in Biomedical Engineering is jointly offered by the School of Engineering and the Division of Biology and Medicine as an interdisciplinary concentration designed for students interested in applying the methods and tools of engineering to the subject matter of biology and the life sciences.
School of Engineering
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Biophysics

Sc.B.  
Biophysics is a quantitative science at the intersection of the life and physical sciences. It requires a significant level of competence in physics, chemistry, biology and math as reflected in the concentration requirements.
Biology Undergraduate Education
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Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations

A.B.  
Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations (BEO) is a multidisciplinary concentration that provides a rigorous and synergistic program in the study of commercial activity grounded in economics, sociology and engineering.
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Chemical Engineering

Sc.B.  
The Sc.B. program in Chemical Engineering prepares students for any field in the chemical sciences. The program emphasizes a molecular engineering approach to problem-solving.
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Chemistry

A.B.   Sc.B.  
The Chemistry concentration offers courses and research opportunities that range from fundamental studies involving the characterization and preparation of synthetic and naturally occurring molecules, to interdisciplinary studies at the interfaces of chemistry with biology, medicine, physics, engineering, and nanoscience.
Department of Chemistry
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Computational Neuroscience

Sc.B.  
This multidisciplinary concentration spans many fields, including computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, applied math, and data science.
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Computer Engineering

Sc.B.  
Computer engineers design computer hardware (from chips to servers), communication and network systems, and the smart digital devices that continue to revolutionize how we live and work. They also write the software to run these systems, constantly innovating to improve performance to meet our growing technological needs.
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Critical Native American and Indigenous Studies

A.B.  
Critical Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) is an interdisciplinary concentration offered through the American Studies department focused on research, teaching and engagement with the social, cultural, artistic, ancestral, heritage, legal and political aspects of Native American and Indigenous peoples in the historical and contemporary periods.
Department of American Studies
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Data Fluency

Certificate  
The undergraduate Certificate in Data Fluency is for undergraduates who wish to gain fluency and facility with the tools of data analysis and its conceptual framework.
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Design Engineering

Sc.B.  
Our world’s problems are increasingly complex, complicated, and integrated technologically, physically, environmentally, socially, politically, and in many other dimensions. Therefore, there is an increasing need for people who can approach problems from multiple perspectives and think across several disciplines.
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Development Studies

A.B.  
Development Studies is an interdisciplinary concentration whose mission is to provide students with the knowledge, critical perspectives and skills they need to engage with the issues of economic and social development, especially as they relate to the Global South.
Program in Development Studies
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Economics

A.B.  
The study of economics helps students understand markets, firms, financial organizations and public debate about economic policy, including taxation, government expenditure, trade, globalization, health and welfare.
Department of Economics
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Electrical Engineering

Sc.B.  
The Sc.B. program in Electrical Engineering equips students with a solid foundation for careers in electrical engineering and related fields, to advance the knowledge base for future technologies, and to merge teaching, scholarship, and practice in the pursuit of solutions to human needs.
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Engineering

A.B.  
The concentration in Engineering equips students with a solid foundation for careers in engineering, to advance the knowledge base for future technologies, and to merge teaching, scholarship, and practice in the pursuit of solutions to human needs.
School of Engineering
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Entrepreneurship

Certificate  
The certificate program in entrepreneurship provides curricular structure for undergraduates who wish to make entrepreneurship an important part of their intellectual journey at Brown.
School of Engineering
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Environmental Engineering

Sc.B.  
The Sc.B. program in Environmental Engineering provides students with the tools to develop sustainable solutions to complicated environmental problems and design real-world solutions that consider risk, sustainability, life-cycle principles, and environmental impacts.
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History

A.B.  
History is the study of how societies and cultures across the world change over time. History concentrators learn to write and think critically, and to understand issues from a variety of perspectives.
Department of History
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Intercultural Competence

Certificate  
Intercultural Competence defines the knowledge, skills and attitudes that curious and open-minded students acquire through the targeted study of languages and cultures.
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International Relations

A.B.  
The objective of the International Relations concentration is to foster creative thinking about pressing global problems and to equip students with the analytic tools, language expertise, and cross-cultural understanding to guide them in that process.
International Relations Program
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Judaic Studies

A.B.  
Jews have lived and flourished over thousands of years in a variety of social contexts, stretching from the Land of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Concentrators will have the opportunity to study Jews in these contexts, getting to know their social structures, and what they have created.
Program in Judaic Studies
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Linguistics

A.B.   Sc.B.  
Language is a uniquely human capacity that enables us to communicate a limitless set of messages on any topic. While human languages can differ greatly in certain respects, all are intricate, complex, rule-governed systems.
Program in Linguistics
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Materials Engineering

Sc.B.  
Materials engineers design, create, and manufacture materials, which include semiconductors, polymers, ceramics, metal alloys, and composites. Their contributions have led to breakthroughs in many fields, including computing, communications, automobiles, energy, aerospace, buildings/infrastructure, and biomedical devices.
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Mechanical Engineering

Sc.B.  
The Sc.B. program in Mechanical Engineering (ME) has a long tradition of excellence at Brown. ME is one of the most versatile engineering disciplines, as it explores a wide range of systems spanning fluids and solids. Students from this concentration learn the Science of motion, designing and analyzing systems that shape our World: from high-precision nanomechanical machines to large-scale aerospace systems.
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Migration Studies

Certificate  
The Migration Studies Certificate promotes a multidisciplinary understanding of migration and the development of a range of methodological skills by linking students to diverse learning resources across departments and centers at Brown, and building community among students and faculty with shared interests in migration, immigration, and the immigrant experience. 
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Psychology

A.B.   Sc.B.  
Psychology encompasses a range of phenomena and levels of analysis in pursuit of three goals: to deepen our understanding of cognitive and neural mechanisms of sensation, perception, learning, and emotion; to probe the biological and evolutionary foundations of behavior; and to clarify the social perception and assessment of individuals and groups.
Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
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Public Health

A.B.  
Public Health is an interdisciplinary concentration through which students examine a variety of health issues, including population health and disease, health policy, cross-cultural and international aspects of health, the organizational and social structures through which health services are delivered and received, and the public health system.
School of Public Health
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Public Policy

A.B.  
Housed in the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the concentration in public policy is organized around the interdisciplinary and comparative study of human societies, but with a particular focus on the rules and norms by which we govern ourselves.
Public Policy
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Sociology

A.B.  
The concentration in Sociology (leading to a Bachelor of Arts) provides a foundation in sociological theory and methods and the opportunity to cultivate more specialized knowledge in the discipline's substantive interests.
Department of Sociology
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Statistics

Sc.B.  
The Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics is designed to provide foundations that include basic statistical concepts and methodologies, and to expose students to the role of statistical thinking and analysis in interdisciplinary research and in the public sphere.
Department of Biostatistics
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