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Special Programs

Double Degree – A unique five-year program to get two Bachelor’s degrees – a Bachelor of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Bachelor of Music in the Conservatory.

Winter term – A four-week period in January during which students work on individual projects.

The Experimental College – A set of for-credit courses taught by students, faculty, and community members that fall outside the realm of Oberlin’s regular academic courses.

First Year Seminar Program – A set of classes just for first years, limited to 14 people per class and on subjects that are not introductory.

Art rental - The Allen Memorial Art Museum rents out over 400 pieces of art to students for $5 a semester, including pieces by Picasso, Rembrandt, and Andy Warhol.

Artist Recital Series - A concert series through the Conservatory that has brought artists such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Dave Brubeck, Hilary Hahn, and Richard Goode to perform at Finney Chapel in Oberlin.

Convocation Series - A series of speakers who come to campus. Recent and future examples include David Sedaris, Tony Kushner, Angela Davis, Maryann Satrapi, Paul Krugman, James Keller, Billy Collins and Frank Rich.

Shansi - A nonprofit organization on campus that creates educational and cultural bridges between Asians and Americans.
Available Majors and Career Preparation

  • Oberlin offers 60 departments and majors, not including those offered at the Conservatory of Music. Majors range from Third World Studies to Computer Science to Creative Writing. See the entire list of available majors at Oberlin.

  • Interested in Engineering? Oberlin offers 3-2 programs with Case Western, Rensselear Polytechnic, Caltech, and Washington University in St. Louis in which students can earn a B.A. and a B.S. in engineering in 5 years. Learn more.

  • Interested in being Pre-Med? Oberlin offers a variety of science programs to prepare students to apply to medical school. Possible majors and areas of study that might interest pre-med students including Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Physics.

  • Interested in being Pre-Law? While no particular track or major is necessary to apply to law school, Oberlin offers a unique major called Law and Society, which pre-law students may find interesting.

  • Interested in Business? Oberlin offers majors including Economics and Mathematics, which prepare students for future work in business.


Interesting Research

  • The Beckman Foundation is funding four student-professor teams for over a year to do their research. With the help of this foundation, more students will be able to have an intense one-on-one research experience with a notable professor at Oberlin.

  • Oberlin’s German Writers in Residence Program has been running for over 35 years. Recent Oberlin Alumni have compiled the work of these European writers that provides an outsider’s view of Oberlin’s unique character.

  • Three students of the class of 2007 received Goldwater Scholarships, with a fourth receiving an honorable mention, for their research in mathematics and the sciences while intending to pursue careers in these fields as well.

  • Ben Sulman ’06 discovered a pulsar using Oberlin's science center’s supercomputer. Find out more.

  • Marta Laskowski, Professor of Biology, was part of a team of intercollegiate scientist who discovered the world’s fastest plant.


Graduate School Information
  • 16% of students attend graduate school upon graduating from Oberlin
  • 3% go to medical school
  • 3% go to law school
  • 2% go to business school


Winter Term Internships:

Interning with a Neurosurgeon: Dr. Douglas Kirkpatrick '65 took Oberlin students as interns over the past 20 years to experience medicine first hand. This was an opportunity to experience medicine, not necessarily make future doctors.

Interning with a law firm: Lansner and Kubitschek is a small, private, socially conscientious law firm co-founded by Carolyn Kubitschek '70. Each student is paired with a paralegal, allowing for a complete view of our legal system.

Worldwide Performances: As music has no bounds, neither should your performance spaces. Conservatory students go all over the world to perform and learn more about their instruments: organ and harpsichord students have gone to France to play original musical instruments; the Intensive String Quartet Seminar sends groups around the world to perform, play unique and priceless instruments and receive coaching from different professors.