Exploring your academic options
Start your academic exploration at majors.osu.edu. You'll find information about about Ohio State's 200+ majors and links to all colleges, departments and programs.
Note: there are a few Engineering specializations that are not accessible for current students at Ohio State, as they are only accessible to students upon applying to Ohio State. Those majors are: Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Computer & Information Science in Arts & Sciences and Mechanical Engineering. You can read more about this policy on the College of Engineering's website.
Ways to explore
Exploration Peer Mentor Bank
How it works: if you're a current Ohio State student interested in connecting with an Exploration peer mentor regarding one of the majors or minors below, you can click on that major or minor to open an email to University Exploration with a pre-populated email subject line. Send that email to us and we will connect you to the appropriate peer mentor.
Major cross-out activity
This is a low-tech activity, but very effective as preparation for an Exploration advising appointment.
- Print this list of majors.
- Cross out the majors you are not interested in. Write down why these majors are not good fits for you.
- Highlight majors that interested you. Write down why. What associations and assumptions do you have about these majors?
- Finally, put a question mark next to majors that you're not sure about.
- Bring your list to your next advising appointment and be prepared to discuss it.