Please see our requirements website for details.

In addition to the Common Application, complete applications must include:

A survey of College of Arts & Sciences students in the Class of 2025 found that 66.6% of graduates are employed, 28.8% are attending graduate school, 1.3% are seeking employment, and 3.3% are traveling/volunteering/preparing for graduate school. Top employment sectors for our graduates include Financial Services (23%), Technology (21%), Consulting/Professional Practice (10%), Human Healthcare Services (9%), Education (7%), Law (6%), Communications/Media (4%), Government (3%), and Nonprofit Organizations (3%).

The College of Arts & Sciences (A&S) is the liberal arts and sciences college at Cornell and the largest of Cornell’s undergraduate colleges. With 40+ majors, 60+ minors, and 2000+ courses across the disciplines, A&S offers uncommon academic diversity. With up to two years before you declare a major and two-thirds of courses taken outside of your major, your educational path will be defined by structured flexibility and be guided by your own academic interests.

Whether you like to travel, love spending time in a lab, or prefer to chart your own course of study, you'll find countless opportunities in the College of Arts & Sciences for engagement and learning, in the classroom and beyond. The body of research, scholarship, and creative works emerging from the College of Arts & Sciences is vast, with one common thread -- ALL of our research is curiosity-based. You can read more about some of the special opportunities in A&S at the links below.

The major (such as Computer Science or Biological Sciences) is exactly the same regardless of which college you attend: the major requirements, professors, classes, rigor, and research opportunities are all the same. The difference is in the requirements outside of the major, as each college has different distribution requirements.