20 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

In the Engineering Science program from Sweet Briar College you’ll jump in right away: Every class is project-based, hands-on learning. It’s all the challenge and sense of purpose you’re looking for — discovering all the ways you can become a woman who gets things done.

The English and Creative Writing program at Sweet Briar College employs a studio curriculum with an emphasis on project-based learning. Special topics classes across genres — and in new and evolving genres — ask students to engage in directed readings and sustained individual creative projects. 

The Theatre and Musical Theatre major at Sweet Briar College is strongly interdisciplinary, allowing students to pursue one area in great depth while encouraging collaboration with other performing arts as much as possible.

The Interdisciplinary Studies at Sweet Briar College, or self-designed, major is for students whose interests lie outside of traditional courses of study and who have the ability to work independently, be self-motivated and be agents of their own educational journey.

Sweet Briar College offers a broad Biology program for students interested in careers in biological and environmental research, teaching and consulting, as well as health and veterinary professions. Students may add secondary teaching licensure in biology to their degree.

The Studio Art program from Sweet Briar College helps students develop practical skills and the ability to access their creativity. In addition to pursuing a career as an artist, studio art graduates can teach, work in design, art therapy, advertising, web design, art journalism, publishing or art auction houses and galleries.

The interdisciplinary Archaeology and Ancient Studies program from Sweet Briar College offers students the opportunity to engage with past peoples through multiple lenses, combining visual, textual and material evidence to generate new perspectives.

Graduates of the Psychology program from Sweet Briar College are well ahead of their peers when it comes to research and internship experiences, which are as important for intellectual and personal growth as they are for our curriculum and a student’s résumé. 

The Music major at Sweet Briar College is strongly interdisciplinary, allowing students to pursue one area in great depth while encouraging collaboration with other performing arts as much as possible.

No other college campus in the nation has so many different types of remarkable natural and agricultural environments right where students live and learn like the Environmental Science program from Sweet Briar College.

 The study of Political Science program from Sweet Briar College helps students understand the complicated issues involved — both historically and today — and prepares them for graduate work and careers in politics and related fields.

The Mathematics program at Sweet Briar College is interdisciplinary and has a particularly strong connection with biology, economics and engineering. Typical career paths for graduates are accounting, banking and finance, defense and weapons research, education, actuarial sciences, engineering and operations research.

At Sweet Briar, our business professors actually run businesses. So what you learn in our classes isn’t just theory or secondhand knowledge. You’ll create a business plan to market an invention by our engineering students. By taking the Business program from Sweet Briar College you’ll learn how local businesspeople thrive in the face of competition and challenges.

The Dance major at Sweet Briar College is strongly interdisciplinary, allowing students to pursue one area in great depth while encouraging collaboration with other performing arts as much as possible.

Chemistry at Sweet Briar College lies at the heart of modern science. Advances in fields such as molecular biology, environmental science, materials science and medicinal chemistry are built upon an understanding of chemistry. 

Empowering our schools with exceptional educators starts with equipping them with the best teacher Education program. Sweet Briar College graduates are equipped to ignite the minds of every student who walks into their classroom.

The Philosophy program at Sweet Briar College takes the form of careful, close reading and in-depth discussion of great works in the Western intellectual tradition, including the writings of philosophers widely acknowledged to be profound, provocative — or both.

The visual arts can be explored in two ways: through the hands-on practice of skills and techniques in a variety of mediums, or through an in-depth study of art’s history and meaning. At Sweet Briar College, the Art History major has two tracks: art history, and studio art.

Students of the Economics program from Sweet Briar College will study the behavior of individuals and firms and how they interact in markets for goods and services. In macroeconomics, students study the sum of these activities at the economy-wide level. 

The History program at Sweet Briar College provides students with support and guidance while improving their critical thinking and research skills. Many history majors study abroad to enrich their understanding of what they have learned at Sweet Briar.