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Freshman Seminars

Academic requirements include two classes each in (1) the humanities and the arts (2) the sciences (3) the social sciences (4) quantitative reasoning and (5) writing. There is also a foriegn langauge requirement. Learn more.

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Available Majors and Career Preparation

Yale offers over 77 majors . Areas of study range from Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies to Near Eastern Languages and Slavic Civilizations. Student to faculty ratio is 6:1.

Interested in Engineering? Yale has a Faculty of Engineering offering programs of study including Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and more.

Interested in being Pre-Med? Yale offers a variety of science programs to prepare students to apply to medical school. Possible majors pre-med students may be interested in include Biology, Chemistry, and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

Interested in Business? Yale offers majors in Economics and Mathematics to prepare student for future work in business.

Most popular types of majors:

42% Social sciences and History
10% Biological life sciences
8% English
7% Visual and performing arts
7% Area and ethnic studies