About

About the College

The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV College of Arts and Sciences is committed to excellence across the liberal arts and sciences. With more than 900 full-time faculty and staff across 23 academic departments and schools on all three campuses, the college serves 15,000 undergraduate majors and 1,700 graduate students, while delivering 487,000 SCH annually to students across the university.

Our highly-ranked academic programs are among the best in the country and the world, with strengths in Library and Information Sciences (15th in the world), Applied Anthropology (1st in the U.S.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology (3rd in the U.S.), among others. With more than $25M in annual research expenditures, our research portfolio has been growing quickly. Our faculty conduct cutting-edge and award-winning research in such areas as cancer cell biology, social media and human experience, bacterial pathogenesis, human dynamics, national security, and religion and health. We are home to 21 research centers and institutes, including our Humanities Institute, which regularly hosts distinguished writers and scholars from across the country.

Our degrees are structured so that students have opportunities for learning both inside the classroom and beyond it. The college offers robust study abroad, internship, and independent research programs for students, including the Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) digital heritage research experiences in Sicily and Malta. We recently received a major grant from the Mellon Foundation to support 900 paid internships a year for humanities students across the college. The college’s alumni are accomplished and engaged, and they are often recognized by the university in the campus’s young alumni and Fast 56 awards.  We are especially proud of the way that the college contributes to Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s national ranking as 22nd in the country in social mobility, a clear sign of the transformative value of the education we provide.