Academics
The Path from Unexpected to Extraordinary
As an Allegheny College student, you’ll combine your interests by selecting a major in one area and a minor in another. Most importantly, this approach keeps your mind wide open while you draw connections and problem-solve, echoing real world experience and building in-demand skills employers are seeking. What major and minor combo will you choose?
Level Up With Microcredentials
From content creation to tax fundamentals, when you graduate from Allegheny, you’ll enter the job market equipped with the skills for your dream career. It’s all possible through our microcredential program.
In addition to your major and minor combination, we offer 28 microcredentials that teach specific, in-demand job skills. And don’t worry about additional course load, because the requirements for these microcredentials are often part of the curriculum of its associated program of study.
Once you complete a microcredential at Allegheny, you’ll receive a digital badge. Above all, you will have a competitive edge in job and graduate school applications.
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Put theory into practice through research projects — from fieldwork to community initiatives — under the guidance of faculty and staff mentors.
Explore the unforgettable experience of learning off campus through semester and yearlong programs, either nationally or internationally, for academic credit.
Build leadership skills, pinpoint your career path, and nurture a commitment to being an engaged citizen on campus and beyond.
Plug into your imagination to design and build anything from artistic projects to robots and smart devices in our lab filled with sophisticated digital equipment.
Academic Centers
Experience concentrated programming in popular areas including business, political science, and innovative computing through Allegheny College’s innovative academic centers and partnerships.
The Senior Comp
Since the College’s first commencement in 1821, Allegheny students have showcased their exceptional academic achievements through a senior capstone experience of one kind or another. At times it involved an oral defense, at others a written thesis.
Career Exploration
Reach your goals for a meaningful life beyond college with access to Allegheny’s network of alumni, faculty, colleagues, and employers.
Academic Resources
All students connect with advisors, such as instructors, coaches, Class Deans, Academic Success staff, who make sure you don’t have to figure everything out on your own.
Take advantage of student-to-student tutoring in any academic subject, as well as writing and public speaking guidance.
Navigate immigration, academic, and personal or cultural concerns through cross-cultural advising and peer mentoring programs.
