35 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

The Chemistry - Physics program at the Reed College is for the student whose intellectual interests or career objectives span these two fields. It provides a richer foundation in physics than does the usual major in chemistry for students anticipating graduate study in chemical physics or theoretical physical chemistry. 

The Linguistics program at Reed College is about the study of human language: its form, variety, and social life. Human language may be studied from a variety of perspectives, whether as a complex behavior, as a medium for creating and embodying social meaning, or as the instantiation of a highly structured system of knowledge within the mind of the speaker.

The Mathematics curriculum at Reed College emphasizes solving problems by rigorous methods that use both calculation and structure. Starting from the first year, students learn to write mathematical arguments. Students discuss the subject intensely with one another outside the classroom.

The discipline of anthropology is traditionally divided into the subfields of cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological (or physical) anthropology, and archaeology. Of these, the Anthropology program at Reed College emphasizes cultural and linguistic anthropology.

The Chemistry program at Reed College is unique among the sciences in that it studies interactions between matter and energy at the atomic level. Why focus on atoms? Consider this - all of the matter that we see around us, a bird, a rock, or a computer screen, is made entirely out of atoms.

The Computer Science program at the Reed College seeks to ground students in a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of computing.

The Physics program at Reed College is about the most mature of the sciences and provides much of the conceptual apparatus and instrumentation for chemistry, biology, astronomy, and engineering.

The French program at Reed College will help you to acquire a critical appreciation of French and Francophone literature and the ability to express themselves in the spoken and written language.

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program at the Reed College is designed in recognition of the intimacy of the subject matter, objectives, and methodology of biochemistry and a variety of related biological disciplines.

The Philosophy program at Reed College deals with some of the most enduring and challenging problems and with the attempts we have made to solve them. The following questions are typical: What do we know and how do we know it? Do we project our values onto the world or find them there?

The Political Science program at Reed College is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the discipline, viewed as a set of specific strategies for understanding political life. 

The Chinese major at Reed College combines thorough training in spoken and written Chinese language with the development of critical approaches to a broad range of Chinese cultural phenomena, including classical and modern literature, film, and popular culture, and underlying aspects of philosophical and social thought.

The Humanities curriculum from Reed College places primary emphasis not upon information, important as that may be, but upon the development of disciplined thinking and writing through the interpretation of works of art, literature, or other means by which people have expressed themselves and ordered their lives, individually and socially. 

English is a global language, and the study of English encompasses many literatures. It is also a language with a long literary tradition, from anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets to Zadie Smith. The English Department at Reed College offers courses ranging from poetry and epic to twentieth-century Irish drama, cinema, creative writing courses, fiction and graphic narrative.

The Biology program at the Reed College is about a discipline that is continuing to expand its horizons at an astonishing pace, making this an especially exciting time to be a biologist.