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. 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?

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Business (Major)

Computer Science (Major/Minor)

Psychology (Major/Minor)

What to Expect During Your Four Years

Years 1 & 2: Your Major/Minor Combination

The courses you take and experiences you have your first two years will prepare you to think critically, communicate creatively, and question everything. Through our advising sequence, you’ll try whatever interests you: your academic passion, research, even trying something new. By sophomore year you’ll declare your major and select your mentor. And that’s just the start of it. Now is also when you’ll choose a minor from a completely different subject area to keep your perspectives fresh and your mind wide open.

Year 3: Focus On Your Field

As you get further into your major and minor, you’ll develop an even sharper understanding of your chosen fields. You’ll also begin to focus on improving your research skills and rhetorical ability to prepare for your Senior Comp.

Year 4: Start Your Senior Comp

As a senior, you and all of your classmates will be busy researching, proposing, creating, and defending an original creative or critical project. You’ll be paired with a mentor to help oversee your Senior Comp project from its first moments all the way to the grand finale — graduation.

Learning Beyond the Classroom

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Student Research

Put theory into practice through research projects — from fieldwork to community initiatives — under the guidance of faculty and staff mentors.

Caryl Waggett's GHS 425 Global Health Transitions class

Global Education

Explore the unforgettable experience of learning off campus through semester and yearlong programs, either nationally or internationally, for academic credit.

Community Engaged Learning

Build leadership skills, pinpoint your career path, and nurture a commitment to being an engaged citizen on campus and beyond.

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Lab for Innovation & Creativity

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.

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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.

Senior Comp