MAJORS
Skills-Based Majors for the Future
We designed some of the most innovative, forward-looking, and future-proof majors around.
Our Psychology & Human Behavior major is exciting, contemporary, and fresh packed with the latest developments in the field from cognitive psychology to neuroscience. We are one of only two universities in Washington, DC offering a major in Entrepreneurship. NewU University is the only one to offer a Creativity & Innovation Management major in the US at the undergraduate level. Save the planet with our Sustainability & Climate Change major, or become a big data guru with the Computer & Data Science major.
And if you don’t see your desired major on our programs list, just use the chart below to see how your interests may already be incorporated into our multidisciplinary and contemporary curriculum. Your major may just have been upgraded!
Traditional Major | Year Introduced | Upgraded, Future-Proof Major at NewU | Year Introduced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Accounting | >> | 2021 | ||
Anthropology | >> | 2021 | ||
Business Administration | >> | 2021 | ||
Computer Science | >> | 2022 | ||
Economics | a long time ago... | >> | 2021 | |
Finance | a long time ago... | >> | 2021 | |
History | a long time ago... | >> | 2021 | |
Journalism | >> | 2021 | ||
Marketing | >> | 2021 | ||
Political Science | >> | 2021 | ||
Sociology | >> | 2021 |
Not quite decided yet? Even if you don’t see your major in the table above, or if you still believe college graduates work in their field of study, consider the reality of life after college. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that only 27% of college graduates actually end up working in a field closely related to their major!
Yes, we know facts rarely change minds when you really, absolutely, definitely think you know what college major you want. But imagine this: if you could go back in time and correct some major mistakes (no pun intended), would you do it? Well, you are not alone. Over 60% of college graduates say they would change their major if they could go back.
And one last revelation on college majors demonstrates that over 80% of college students change their major at least once while in college.
So, whatever major you choose at NewU, you can’t go wrong. It’s ok to change your major at any time before you graduate, and it is statistically more than likely that you will get your first 3 jobs in fields not closely related to your major. So breathe in, breathe out, and just go for it! Any choice of major you make at NewU is the right choice.
All NewU students who wish to graduate with a degree in one or more majors must successfully complete all courses required for their chosen major, and at least 4 courses from the electives towards their major. All NewU students may choose to take up to 4 additional electives from another major or majors at no extra cost as part of their NewU program, as long as the course is below capacity and not oversubscribed by other students who need the course to graduate.
All course descriptions and requirements for each major are in the Student Catalog.
Our future-proof academic program is all about nurturing and graduating Educated Persons in a collaborative, stress-free environment. When you complete the program, you will possess practical and marketable analytical skills, and have outstanding written and verbal rhetoric abilities. You will embrace lifelong intellectual inquiry and learning, and have advanced intercultural understanding and global insight. You will also command a broad social and political understanding of our contemporary world and trends, and the resilience needed to succeed.
These skills, knowledge, and traits will serve you extremely well in our increasingly uncertain and dynamic world where automation and AI, rapid innovation, and pandemic and other disruptions change not only jobs, but entire industries in an instant. NewU supercharges your ability to thrive, both personally and professionally, as you blaze your trail wherever life takes you.​
Core Courses
Prior to specializing within a Major, all NewU students are expected to complete a set of required core courses, which lay the foundation for lifelong academic and professional career success. These courses are all scheduled during Year 1 of your NewU experience, and each new student is automatically enrolled.
This way we made your first year of college even easier by pre-configuring the most interesting, useful, and expertly-designed courses for you, so you don’t even have to worry about course registrations, withdrawals, section swaps, instructor selections or changes, and all the related complexities of academic life as a new college student.
All course descriptions are in the Student Catalog.
First Year Class Schedule for All Students
Fall Semester
- The Art of Persuasion
- Foundational Analytics
- Modern World
- Organizational Behavior
- Psychology of Human Behavior
- Special Topics Seminar
Spring Semester
- The Art of Persuasion (Part 2)
- Foundational Analytics (Part 2)
- Modern World (Part 2)
- Understanding Other Cultures
- Positive Psychology
- Special Topics Seminar
WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR NEWU COLLEGE JOURNEY?
