Majors and Concentrations
Columbia University School of General Studies offers the following majors and concentrations. Students at GS must complete a major to receive a bachelor’s degree.
Students may also wish to pursue a concentration, which is optional and provides students the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge in a secondary field. Most academic departments offer both a major and a concentration.
A few areas of study, which are marked with an *, are offered exclusively as concentrations.
- African-American Studies
- American Studies
- Ancient Studies
- Anthropology
- Applied Mathematics
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Art History
- Art History and Visual Arts
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biophysics
- Business Management*
- Chemical Physics
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Climate System Science
- Cognitive Science
- Comparative Literature and Society
- Computational Biology
- Computer Science
- Computer Science-Mathematics
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- Data Science
- Drama and Theatre Arts
- Earth Science
- Earth and Space
- East Asian Studies
- Economics
- Economics-Mathematics
- Economics-Philosophy
- Economics-Political Science
- Economics-Statistics
- Education*
- English
- Environmental Biology
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Science
- Ethnicity and Race Studies
- Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species
- Film and Media Studies
- Financial Economics
- French
- French and Francophone Studies
- German Literature and Cultural History
- Hispanic Studies
- History
- History and Theory of Architecture
- Human Rights
- Information Science
- Italian
- Jazz Studies*
- Jewish Studies*
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Mathematics-Statistics
- Medical Humanities
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies*
- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- Modern Greek Studies*
- Music
- Neuroscience and Behavior
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Political Science-Statistics
- Portuguese Studies*
- Psychology
- Public Health*
- Regional Studies
- Religion
- Russian Language and Culture
- Russian Literature and Culture
- Slavic Studies
- Sociology
- Statistics
- Sustainable Development
- Urban Studies
- Visual Arts
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Yiddish Studies