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STEM & Engineering
Degrees that build machines, models and formal systems.
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🩺Health & Mind
Bodies, minds and populations — clinical and caring disciplines.
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📈Business & Economics
Firms, markets, money and the people who allocate them.
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🏛️Society & Law
How societies govern, argue and organise themselves.
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📜Humanities & Media
Language, history, meaning and public storytelling.
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🎨Arts & Design
Making form — buildings, objects, images, sound and film.
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📚Education
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🌿Life & Environment
Living systems, land, food and the planetary commons.
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STEM builders
Math-heavy majors that design systems, chips, code and physical machines.
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🫀Care & health
Degrees that put you next to patients, populations and the evidence that guides care.
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🎨Creative & culture
Studio, screen, stage and story — majors that shape how culture looks and sounds.
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⚖️Society & law
Power, rights, institutions and care for communities — majors that argue in public.
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💱Business & money
Firms, books, markets and hospitality — how value is organised and exchanged.
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🌍Earth & materials
Land, climate, molecules and processes — majors that work with the living planet and what we make from it.
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🛰️Built & flight
Structures, vehicles and objects in motion — from bridges and cabins to satellites.
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💭Words & ideas
Language, argument, memory and meaning — majors that train how we think and speak.
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🌐Digital society
Code, data and public speech — majors for platforms, newsrooms and the politics of information.
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🩺Healing sciences
Molecules to minds — biology, medicines and care pathways that restore function and reduce harm.
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📐Design space
Form, structure and interaction — from buildings and products to the software that wraps around them.
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📜Policy world
Rules, history and incentives — majors for drafting, arguing and implementing decisions that bind many people.
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Math signal
Majors where proof, models and measurement are the daily language — from pure abstraction to chips and datasets.
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🫶People & care
Degrees built around bodies, minds, classrooms and communities — care as skill, ethics and systems.
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✏️Studio & make
Critiques, prototypes and performances — majors that train judgment through making things others can see, hear or use.
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🪪Licensed paths
Fields where a degree is only the first gate — exams, supervised practice and professional registers still ahead.
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🔬Research depth
Majors that reward primary sources, lab notebooks and long arguments — training for inquiry that outlasts a semester.
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⌨️Code & data
Computation as craft — algorithms, pipelines, signals and the math that keeps systems honest.
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🏛️Markets & orgs
How firms, states and guests move money and power — majors for reading incentives and institutions.
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📰Story & media
Narrative, sound, image and language under deadline or critique — majors that shape what publics notice.
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Computer Science
Algorithms, systems and software — how machines are made to reason, store and communicate.
Employability 94 ⚡Electrical Engineering
Circuits, fields and signals — powering, sensing and communicating the physical world.
Employability 88 🔧Mechanical Engineering
Forces, materials and machines — designing things that move, bear load and last.
Employability 86 🌉Civil Engineering
Infrastructure that societies stand on — bridges, water, roads, cities and codes.
Employability 84 ⚗️Chemical Engineering
Turning reactions into plants — scale, safety and efficiency from molecule to factory.
Employability 82 🛰️Aerospace Engineering
Flight in air and vacuum — structures, propulsion, guidance and certification.
Employability 76 📊Data Science
Statistics, computing and domain sense — turning messy data into decisions that hold up.
Employability 92 🧮Mathematics
Proof, structure and abstraction — the language that other sciences borrow.
Employability 70 ⚛️Physics
Matter, energy, space and time — from lab benches to the edge of the observable.
Employability 68 🧪Chemistry
Molecules and reactions — how substances change, bind and are made safely.
Employability 72 📉Statistics
Uncertainty made usable — design, inference and the ethics of claiming a pattern is real.
Employability 88 🧬Biology
Living systems from molecules to ecosystems — observation, experiment and careful inference.
Employability 64 🧫Biotechnology
Engineering living systems — tools, regulation and products from cells and DNA.
Employability 80 🌾Agriculture
Food, fibre and land — soils, crops, animals and the systems that feed cities.
Employability 72 🌍Environmental Science
Earth systems under pressure — measuring change and designing responses that stick.
Employability 70 🫀Medicine
Diagnosing and treating illness — science, judgement and long apprenticeship at the bedside.
Employability 90 💉Nursing
Continuous care at the bedside and in the community — assessment, advocacy and stamina.
Employability 96 💊Pharmacy
Medicines from molecule to patient — chemistry, counselling and systems that keep doses safe.
Employability 86 🏥Public Health
Health of populations — epidemiology, policy, prevention and the politics of who gets care.
Employability 78 🧠Psychology
Mind and behaviour — experiments, clinics and the limits of what self-report can tell.
Employability 66 💼Business Administration
Organisations under constraints — strategy, people, money and the stories firms tell themselves.
Employability 84 🧾Accounting
The language of economic truth claims — standards, audit and the politics of what gets counted.
Employability 90 💱Economics
Incentives, markets and policy — models that must survive contact with real institutions.
Employability 76 🏨Hospitality Management
Service operations at scale — rooms, food, events and the labour that makes guests feel looked after.
Employability 80 ⚖️Law
Argument under rules — statutes, cases, procedure and the power to bind strangers.
Employability 74 🏛️Political Science
Power, institutions and ideas — how states decide, fail and reinvent themselves.
Employability 60 🌐International Relations
States, markets and norms across borders — diplomacy, security and global governance.
Employability 62 👥Sociology
How groups make worlds — class, institutions, methods and the politics of categories.
Employability 58 🤝Social Work
Practice with people under strain — casework, systems, law and the ethics of intervening.
Employability 82 📖English Literature
Close reading across centuries — form, history and the arguments texts still pick with us.
Employability 52 🏺History
Evidence from the dead — archives, argument and the politics of which past gets told.
Employability 54 💭Philosophy
Arguments about mind, value, knowledge and reality — clarity as a professional habit.
Employability 48 🗣️Linguistics
How language works — sound, structure, meaning and the societies that speak.
Employability 62 📰Journalism
Verification under deadline — reporting, ethics and the infrastructures that carry news.
Employability 58 🎓Education
Teaching as craft and public trust — curriculum, classroom practice and the politics of schools.
Employability 88 🏗️Architecture
Space made lasting — design studios, structure, cities and the politics of who gets to build.
Employability 70 ✏️Industrial Design
Objects people use — research, form, manufacturing and the ethics of making more stuff.
Employability 74 🖼️Fine Arts
Making and meaning — studio practice, critique and the institutions that show work.
Employability 42 🎻Music
Sound as craft — practice rooms, ensembles, theory and the markets that pay (or do not).
Employability 48 🎬Film Studies
Cinema as art, industry and archive — watching closely and sometimes making.
Employability 56