Imagine Your Future at UC Santa Barbara and Beyond

This interactive site allows you to explore your academic interests and passions, and discover courses and programs that will open new intellectual horizons while helping you to fulfill your degree requirements. It will introduce you to majors and minors that can provide a rigorous academic focus for your undergraduate education and lead to a wide variety of career pathways after graduation. 

UC Santa Barbara is known for its commitment to undergraduate education and a broad-based “liberal arts and sciences” curriculum that mirrors its research strengths in science, engineering, social science, humanities, arts, education, and many interdisciplinary fields of study. The campus offers over 200 degree programs across the College of Letters and Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Creative Studies, and the Gevirtz School of Education. 

 The College of Letters and Science alone offers some 80 majors and nearly 40 minors, including a number of interdisciplinary programs. It awards four degrees: bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of fine arts, and bachelor of music. Departments and interdepartmental programs also offer a range of minors to students interested in pursuing a second area of study. Certificate programs are also offered through Professional and Continuing Education. 

 You may browse Programs to learn more about each degree program’s focus, highlights, and requirements, as well as related career possibilities. (Many Departments offer more than one degree. You may select a bachelor of arts degree in some science majors, depending on your academic goals.) Since UCSB has courses, degrees, areas of study, and programs that don’t exist in high schools and community colleges, or are taught from very different perspectives than one finds elsewhere, you should use this catalog to discover the full spectrum of academic possibilities available to you and to explore the rich curriculum taught by internationally renowned faculty in a research university known for its interdisciplinary culture.