With 170 majors and more than 130 minor areas of study, Ball State can help you reach almost any personal or professional goal you set for yourself. If you’re not quite sure what you want to study, your faculty advisor and Core Curriculum courses will help you find the program that makes the most of your talents and interests (without throwing off your graduation date). Whatever you end up studying, you’ll get tons of hands-on experience and close interaction with faculty, so when it comes time to sport the mortarboard, you’ll be ready for anything.
Ball State Majors:
Accounting
Acting
Actuarial Science
Advertising
Anthropology
Apparel Design
Applied Mathematics – Physics
Aquatic Biology and Fisheries
Aquatics
Architecture
Art
Athletic Training
Biochemistry
Biology
Botany, Field
Business
Business Administration (two-year degree)
Business and Marketing Education
Business Information Technology (two-year degree)
Career and Technical Education
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ceramics
Chemistry
Chemistry Education
Classical Culture
Classical Languages (Greek and Latin)
Communication Studies (Interpersonal, Organizational, Public)
Computer Science (Cooperative Education, Hardware Systems, Information Systems)
Computer Technology
Construction Management
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Dance
Dietetics
Drawing – Art
Early Childhood Education
Earth Science
Earth/Space Science Education
Ecology
Economics (Business, Financial Analyst, Liberal Arts)
Electronic Art and Animation
Elementary Education
English (Creative Writing, English Studies, Literature, Rhetoric and Writing)
English/Language Arts Education
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Communication/Interpretation – Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Environmental Design – Architecture
Exercise Science
Family and Child
Family and Consumer Sciences, General
Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Fashion Merchandising
Finance (Business Finance, Financial Planning and Investments, Financial Analysis)
Financial Mathematics
French
French Education
Genetics
Geographic Information Processing and Mapping
Geography
Geology
German
German Education
Graphic Arts Management
Graphic Design (Visual Communication)
Health Science
Hearing Impaired/Deaf Education – Special Education
History
Hospitality and Food Management
Human Resource Management
Information Systems – Business
Interior Design
International Business
Japanese
Japanese Education
Journalism (Graphics, Magazine, News-Editorial, Photojournalism)
Journalism Education
Land Management – Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Landscape Architecture
Latin Education
Latin-American Studies
Legal Studies (Business, Public Law)
Life Science Education
Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Marketing
Mathematical Economics
Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics Education
Medical Technology
Metals – Art
Meteorology and Climatology, Operational – Geography
Microbiology
Music Composition
Music Education (Instrumental/General and Vocal/General)
Music Performance (Guitar, Organ, Piano, Symphonic Instruments, and Voice)
Music Technology
Musical Theatre
Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Nuclear Medicine Technology (2-year degree)
Nursing
Occupational/Industrial Hygiene – Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Operations Management – Business
Painting
Park and Recreation Management – Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Philosophy
Photography – Art
Physical Education (Teaching)
Physical Science Education
Physics (Applied, General)
Physics Education
Political Science (Economics, International Studies)
Preaudiology
Predental Hygiene
Predentistry
Preengineering (General, Chemical, Metallurgical)
Prelaw
Premedicine
Preoptometry
Prepharmacy
Prephysician’s Assistant
Preveterinary
Printmaking – Art
Psychology
Public Relations
Radiation Therapy (two-year degree)
Radiography (two-year degree)
Religious Studies
Residential Property Management
Respiratory Therapy
Risk Management and Insurance
School Health Education
Science Education
Sculpture
Social Studies Education
Social Work
Sociology
Spanish
Spanish Education
Special Education (Early Childhood, Mild Interventions, Severe Interventions)
Speech-Language Pathology
Sport Administration
Statistics – Mathematical Sciences
Technology Education
Telecommunications (Multimedia, News, Production, Sales and Promotion)
Theater
Theater Design and Technology
Theater Education
Theater Production
Theatrical Studies
Travel and Tourism – Geography
Urban Planning and Development
Visual Arts Education
Visual Communication (Graphic Design)
Wildlife Biology and Conservation
Women’s Studies
Zoology