64 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

This Equine Business Management course of study from Otterbein University prepares you for careers in the business and facility management aspects of the 112 billion dollar equine industry.

The Physics major  from Otterbein University  provides a rigorous grounding in fundamental physics, fosters critical thinking and creative problem solving, and provides broad practical training in science and technology. 

Otterbein University’s Art History program empowers future teachers to thrive in their own classrooms. Paralleling the literary studies major, ILA immerses students in great reads, compelling questions, and transformative writing experiences.

The Film Studies from Otterbein University concentration gives you a chance to explore the power of cinema. 

This Educational Studies Program from Otterbein University program can serve as pre-professional preparation for school psychologists/counselors, church-based educators, and non-profit leaders (e.g., Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, museums, latch-key programs, recreation programs).

A major in Sociology at Otterbein University is exceptionally flexible. You can easily complement a sociology major with an additional major and minor. Many students combine sociology with psychology, political science, communication, English, history, business, or a modern language.

By majoring in Public Health Education at Otterbein University, students will be prepared to work as a health educator in community organizations such as health departments, voluntary organizations, or service organizations, as well as in worksites and health care settings.

Mechanical Engineering at Otterbein University is based on fundamental engineering science principles and focuses on the design of mechanical systems, machines, and consumer products.

Do you like to hold organizational leadership positions? Enjoy speaking in public and debating others? Have talents that include excellent communication skills, both written and verbal? Find that you are able to diagnose communication breakdowns and help repair them? The answers to these questions might lead you to major in Communication Studies at Otterbein University.

The Theatre Design and Technology course from Otterbein University provides an immersive hands-on experience in which students achieve practical production experience across all areas of technical theatre, making our graduates versatile and effective collaborators.

Enjoy strategizing the best ways to combat health issues? Do you have skills that include problem-solving, seeing the “big-picture” and setting strategies to devise campaigns?  Are you interested in current social issues or health challenges, but do not see yourself providing direct patient care? Then the Health Communication course from Otterbein University is the right choice for you.

The four-year Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.) program at Otterbein University offers students the professional skills needed to be a well-rounded music educator.

Have you ever found yourself talking out loud to the television, radio, or computer screen asking:Who is the audience? Why are they telling this story? What would be a better multimedia method that that would make this story most compelling? Then the Journalism and Media Communication course from Otterbein University is the right choice for you.

Designed to prepare students for careers in professional theatre, the B.F.A. in Acting program at Otterbein University is a four-year sequence of courses in acting, voice, movement and dance.

The Allied Health major at Otterbein University has been designed to expose students to the wide variety of options for study and career opportunities in the health care arena. 

Designed to prepare students as "triple threats", the interdisciplinary BFA in Musical Theatre degree program from Otterbein University offers a four-year sequence of courses in acting, voice, music and dance.

The mission of the Global Studies program from Otterbein University is to help students appreciate and understand today’s increasingly intercultural world and the interconnections that link citizens across the world.

The Otterbein University offers a major in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Many of our students combine coursework in WGSS with other programs of study. The most popular double majors are in English, Psychology, Sociology, and History/Political Science.

The major in Religion at Otterbein University will help students thoughtfully and critically understand a complex landscape of competing worldviews and how those worldviews are lived out in practice.

Otterbein University’s Integrated Language Arts (ILA) program empowers future teachers to thrive in their own classrooms. Paralleling the literary studies major, ILA immerses students in great reads, compelling questions, and transformative writing experiences.