Majors
Career-Ready Majors
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We designed some of the most innovative, forward-looking, and career-ready majors around.
Our Psychology & Human Behavior major is packed with the latest developments in the field, from cognitive psychology to neuroscience. Entrepreneurship teaches you to build and run a venture. Creativity & Innovation Leadership is a modern business administration major. Our Sustainability major, a BS in STEM, teaches you to measure an organization’s environmental impact and the resources it uses, and to lead the technology, policy, and efficiency changes that reduce both. Computer & Data Science makes you the person who turns data into decisions.
And if you don’t see your desired major on our programs list, use the chart below to see how your interests may already be built into our multidisciplinary curriculum. Your major may just have been upgraded.
| If you were going to major in | At NewU you would major in |
|---|---|
| Accounting or Finance | Entrepreneurship |
| Business Administration or Management | Creativity & Innovation Leadership |
| Economics | Computer & Data Science, or Psychology & Human Behavior (behavioral economics) |
| Marketing or Communications | Psychology & Human Behavior |
| Computer Science or Statistics | Computer & Data Science |
| Environmental Science or Environmental Policy | Sustainability |
| Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology | Psychology & Human Behavior |
| Political Science or History | Psychology & Human Behavior |
| Journalism | Psychology & Human Behavior |
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 work in a field closely related to their major.
And about a third of college students change their major at least once within three years, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
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 more likely than not that your first jobs will be in fields not closely related to your major. So breathe in, breathe out, and 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 classes required for their chosen major, and at least 4 classes 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 class is below capacity and not oversubscribed by other students who need the class to graduate.
All class descriptions and requirements for each major are in the Student Catalog.
Our career-ready 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 Classes
Prior to specializing within a Major, all NewU students are expected to complete a set of required core classes, which lay the foundation for lifelong academic and professional career success. These classes 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 classes for you, so you don’t even have to worry about class registrations, section swaps, instructor selections or changes, and all the related complexities of academic life as a new college student.
All class 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?
- Just looking
- Apply for admission
- Apply for financial aid
- Reserve your seat
- Sign to enroll
We email you at each stage.