BA Majors-Minors

The LPS Bachelor of Arts is no longer accepting applications for admission. We welcome you to learn more about our Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences program, offered by Penn LPS Online—an online liberal arts education, built with career enhancement in mind.

Your major serves to focus your studies within a particular department, and announce your expertise to future employers or educational institutions. Some students arrive knowing exactly what they want to major in, and others are still looking. Whether you know which path you'd like to follow or want to explore multiple promising options, your academic advisor will help you refine your focus and coach you throughout the process.

As a student in the Bachelor of Arts degree program, you will have access to majors and minors from more than 50 academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the School of Arts and Sciences. All of our Bachelor of Arts students are welcome to enroll in daytime courses at Penn. Four of these majors—English, Environmental Studies, Humanities and Social Science—can be completed taking exclusively evening courses.

With such a wide selection of majors from which to choose, our students find opportunities to prepare for nearly any personal or professional goal. For example, students interested in pursuing a career in business often major in subjects like Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), International Relations, Economics or Political Science. Use the department links below to learn more about the undergraduate programs, including course requirements.

*Academic credit is defined by the University of Pennsylvania as a course unit (c.u.). A course unit (c.u.) is a general measure of academic work over a period of time, typically a term (semester or summer). A c.u. (or a fraction of a c.u.) represents different types of academic work across different types of academic programs and is the basic unit of progress toward a degree. One c.u. is usually converted to a four-semester-hour course.