Tool-Lifes

Everything About University Majors

Forty majors, each taken apart seven ways: the curriculum, campus life, communities, real editorial voices, demand signals, the values of the discipline, and where graduates go.

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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
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Mechanical Engineering

Forces, materials and machines — designing things that move, bear load and last.

Employability 86
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Civil Engineering

Infrastructure that societies stand on — bridges, water, roads, cities and codes.

Employability 84
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Chemical Engineering

Turning reactions into plants — scale, safety and efficiency from molecule to factory.

Employability 82
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Aerospace Engineering

Flight in air and vacuum — structures, propulsion, guidance and certification.

Employability 76
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Data Science

Statistics, computing and domain sense — turning messy data into decisions that hold up.

Employability 92
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Mathematics

Proof, structure and abstraction — the language that other sciences borrow.

Employability 70
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Physics

Matter, energy, space and time — from lab benches to the edge of the observable.

Employability 68
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Chemistry

Molecules and reactions — how substances change, bind and are made safely.

Employability 72
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Statistics

Uncertainty made usable — design, inference and the ethics of claiming a pattern is real.

Employability 88
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Biology

Living systems from molecules to ecosystems — observation, experiment and careful inference.

Employability 64
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Biotechnology

Engineering living systems — tools, regulation and products from cells and DNA.

Employability 80
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Agriculture

Food, fibre and land — soils, crops, animals and the systems that feed cities.

Employability 72
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Environmental Science

Earth systems under pressure — measuring change and designing responses that stick.

Employability 70
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Medicine

Diagnosing and treating illness — science, judgement and long apprenticeship at the bedside.

Employability 90
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Nursing

Continuous care at the bedside and in the community — assessment, advocacy and stamina.

Employability 96
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Pharmacy

Medicines from molecule to patient — chemistry, counselling and systems that keep doses safe.

Employability 86
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Public Health

Health of populations — epidemiology, policy, prevention and the politics of who gets care.

Employability 78
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Psychology

Mind and behaviour — experiments, clinics and the limits of what self-report can tell.

Employability 66
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Business Administration

Organisations under constraints — strategy, people, money and the stories firms tell themselves.

Employability 84
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Accounting

The language of economic truth claims — standards, audit and the politics of what gets counted.

Employability 90
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Economics

Incentives, markets and policy — models that must survive contact with real institutions.

Employability 76
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Hospitality Management

Service operations at scale — rooms, food, events and the labour that makes guests feel looked after.

Employability 80
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Law

Argument under rules — statutes, cases, procedure and the power to bind strangers.

Employability 74
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Political Science

Power, institutions and ideas — how states decide, fail and reinvent themselves.

Employability 60
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International Relations

States, markets and norms across borders — diplomacy, security and global governance.

Employability 62
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Sociology

How groups make worlds — class, institutions, methods and the politics of categories.

Employability 58
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Social Work

Practice with people under strain — casework, systems, law and the ethics of intervening.

Employability 82
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English Literature

Close reading across centuries — form, history and the arguments texts still pick with us.

Employability 52
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History

Evidence from the dead — archives, argument and the politics of which past gets told.

Employability 54
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Philosophy

Arguments about mind, value, knowledge and reality — clarity as a professional habit.

Employability 48
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Linguistics

How language works — sound, structure, meaning and the societies that speak.

Employability 62
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Journalism

Verification under deadline — reporting, ethics and the infrastructures that carry news.

Employability 58
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Education

Teaching as craft and public trust — curriculum, classroom practice and the politics of schools.

Employability 88
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Architecture

Space made lasting — design studios, structure, cities and the politics of who gets to build.

Employability 70
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Industrial Design

Objects people use — research, form, manufacturing and the ethics of making more stuff.

Employability 74
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Fine Arts

Making and meaning — studio practice, critique and the institutions that show work.

Employability 42
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Music

Sound as craft — practice rooms, ensembles, theory and the markets that pay (or do not).

Employability 48
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Film Studies

Cinema as art, industry and archive — watching closely and sometimes making.

Employability 56

Across every major