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Minors, Concentrations and Tracks

At Clarkson, our flexible undergraduate majors provide students with the opportunities to supplement their studies with additional academic interests through minors, concentrations and tracks. 

Minors are programs where students take a smaller amount of credits in a particular area of study that complements the major. Pursuing one or more minors allows students to add another area of specialization outside the major. Minors typically require 15 or more credit hours of specified coursework. Clarkson offers 50 minors spanning all of our schools in engineering, arts, sciences, business, environmental studies and interdisciplinary programs. Students can also create their own minor through our "individually designed" minor option. 

Professional Concentrations are a way to build an area of specialized expertise within, or closely related to, their degree program major. Concentrations typically require approximately 15 credit hours of coursework. Clarkson offers over a dozen professional concentrations in arts, sciences, engineering, engineering management and environmental studies. 

Advising Tracks are a way for our students to prepare for further professional study in professional graduate school programs in health sciences and law. Students at Clarkson do not major in health sciences or law, but instead have special advising from Clarkson faculty and staff to ensure they are well prepared for applying to and entering their respective graduate programs. 

Our Minors

  • Anthropology
  • Architectural and Facilities Engineering
  • Biology
  • Biology, Behavior and Society
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biomedical Science and Technology
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Communication
  • Computer Science
  • Computational Science
  • Digital Art
  • Economics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Health Science
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Science
  • Gender & Sexuality Studies
  • History
  • Human Resource Management

 

  • Humanities
  • Individually Designed Minor
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  • Law Studies
  • Literature and the Arts
  • Materials Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Healthcare
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Political Science
  • Pre-Teaching
  • Psychology
  • Product Development and Marketing
  • Quality Based Project Management
  • Robotics
  • Science, Technology and Society
  • Sociology
  • Software Engineering
  • Statistics
  • Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering
  • Sustainable Solutions for the Developing World
  • War Studies

Professional Concentrations

  • Accounting
  • Advanced Manufacturing Engineering
  • Biomolecular Engineering
  • Construction Engineering Management
  • Electric Power Engineering
  • Environment and Security
  • Ergonomics

 

  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Global Supply Chain Management
  • Health Psychology
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Structural Engineering
  • Water Resources Engineering

Our Advising Tracks

  • Construction Management
  • Pre-Dental
  • Pre-Law
  • Pre-Medicine
  • Pre-Occupational Therapy
  • Pre-Optometry
  • Pre-Pharmacy
  • Pre-Physical Therapy
  • Pre-Physician Assistant
  • Pre-Public Health
  • Pre-Veterinary

Schools at Clarkson

  • Graduate School
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • David D. Reh School of Business
  • Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering
  • Earl R. and Barbara D. Lewis School of Health Sciences
  • Institute for a Sustainable Environment
  • Early College Program: The Clarkson School
  • Institute for STEM Education
  • Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

Highlights of Excellence

  • Career Center
  • Honors Program
  • ROTC
  • Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED)
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Research & Innovation

  • Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C3S2)
  • The Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP)
  • Center for Air and Aquatic Resources Engineering & Science (CAARES)
  • Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
  • The Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science & Technology (CREST)
  • NYS Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions
  • The Shipley Center for Innovation
  • Clarkson Ignite
  • University Libraries

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