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No matter your passions, our unique model can serve as a launching pad for your curiosity, determination, and vision.
Building the Curriculum of Tomorrow
Drexel is a comprehensive R1 research institution and global leader in experiential education located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Combining world-class academics with the power of real-world experience, this University provides a wide range of enriching academic options that allow students to explore, grow, and develop as critical thinkers and well-rounded learners. Intent on aligning our distinguishing strengths, academic structures, and strategies around providing the best possible University experience for students, Drexel’s dynamic ecosystem of learning and exploration will empower you to curate your academic pathway at your own pace and collect invaluable experiences along the way.
Our signature model of experiential education is embedded into everything that we do — our interdisciplinary coursework and opportunities for advanced research, entrepreneurial endeavors, industry collaborations, civic engagement opportunities, and so much more. With a focus on building experts in the fields that are actively shaping the future, this framework encourages the discovery of new passions by offering opportunities for students to work collaboratively alongside other students, faculty, industry partners, and leadership throughout the University community in the classroom and around the world. With a history of exceptional outcomes, we encourage you to explore all of the undergraduate pathways we have to offer.
Drexel is undertaking a bold Academic Transformation designed to align our distinctive strengths, academic structure, and strategic goals with our mission to prepare students for success in a rapidly evolving world. As part of this multi-year initiative, we will transition to a semester calendar, restructure several Colleges and Schools, and bolster our curriculum to better reflect the needs of today’s learners and tomorrow’s leaders. While these changes may lead to updates in academic programs, they are not expected to significantly disrupt students’ current plans of study. Every aspect of this transition is being carefully planned to ensure continuity, with a strong commitment to supporting students throughout the process.
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Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurship Programs
Our business, economics, and entrepreneurship programs are built to empower students to become leaders in the ever-evolving global marketplace. With a rigorous, experience-based business education and innovative learning environments, Dragons in these programs gain the skills they need to excel in the industry. If you're more interested in how the market works, our economics students gain a comprehensive understanding of economic theory and its application to both public policy and business.And our entrepreneurship students are equipped with the entrepreneurial mindset through a curriculum that builds resilience and initiative as they launch their own businesses.
Picture yourself working collaboratively with your faculty and classmates in a wide variety of interdisciplinary environments, including case study competitions, business simulations, or even alongside corporate consultants. Are you ready to launch into the business world through hands-on, experiential learning?
Creative Programs
Our design, media, and arts programs are crafted to empower students to become inspiring leaders in the world's evolving creative industries. With an experience-based, studio approach to learning, Dragons in these programs benefit from small hands-on classes taught by professors at the top of their creative fields. With, at minimum, six months of industry experience built into every program, our students graduate with professional experience and a stand-out portfolio.
Prepare to enrich your work by going on field excursions throughout the city of Philadelphia, to places like the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Barnes Foundation; the Kimmel Center; the Fabric Workshop and Museum; and top architecture, design, and retail firms in the city. Are you ready to reimagine the world through your creativity?
Engineering, Computing, and Data Programs
Our engineering, computing, and data programs are designed to develop empowered professionals with a vision for the future. Immediately immersed in engineering design thinking, our engineering Dragons are empowered to dive into hands-on projects that give them exposure to all disciplines of the field. Upon graduation, our computing and data students jump right into high-tech careers — benefiting from a curriculum that focuses on the connection between people, information, and technology.
Plan to discover solutions for humanity’s most pressing issues by creating the latest smartphone app, designing water sanitation systems halfway across the world, or working toward a climate-resilient future. Are you ready to enhance the human experience and build inspiring visions of the future through engineering or computing?
Health Professions Programs
Our nursing, health professions, and public health programs are built to equip students to become innovators of care and advocates for others in a rapidly changing health care system. With a collaborative, hands-on approach to education, Dragons in our health professions and nursing programs become confident care providers and make a real impact in the lives of the people that they serve through innovative simulation and other real-world learning opportunities. And our public health students become equipped to make real-world contributions to population health.
Achieve your academic goals with state-of-the-art training facilities, from practicing emergency medical responses for disaster situations to developing new nursing practices or public health protocols — come to Drexel and be the change you want to see in the world. Are you ready to improve the quality of life for people in communities locally, nationally, or even globally?
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Programs
Our humanities, social sciences, and education programs empowers students to take their studies into the world and grow as well-rounded subject-matter experts. With a practical, problem-solving approach to the humanities and social sciences, infused with applied methods, Dragons in these programs benefit from paid research assistantships as early as their first year and make an impact alongside their faculty mentors. Students in our education programs receive training in the most up-to-date trends in theory, instruction, and technology in the classroom and are provided opportunities for observation and practice in the form of relevant field experiences and cooperative education.
Whether you want to educate community groups in digitizing their archives, teach neighborhoods to adapt to climate change, or develop educational policies to increase accessibility, there’s a place for you here. Can you see yourself exploring how we think, how we learn, and how these processes affect society?
Law Programs
Our law programs prepare our students to grow as leaders ready to make a positive impact in communities. Under the guidance of faculty composed of respected members of the legal community, undergraduate law students at Drexel develop an in-depth knowledge of the American legal system and closely study the constantly evolving relationship between law and society with our interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to learning. Students in these programs even have the opportunity to learn directly from attorneys, activists, policymakers, and judges through visiting courtrooms and speak with practicing attorneys as early as their first few days.
Get ready to gain hands-on trial experience, learn the business of activism, or dive into legal research in your very first year. Can you envision yourself theorizing the legal intersections of politics, business, technology, environmental science, public health, and more?
Science and Mathematics Programs
Our science and mathematics programs equip students with the resources and support needed to experience the world and dare to change it before even receiving a diploma. Our Dragons in these programs dive deep into their discipline and collaborate on cutting-edge research with our expert faculty as their mentors and gain the field experience, early and often. Plus, through cooperative education, Community-Based Learning courses, and study abroad, you'll have access to unprecedented opportunities at the forefront of scientific exploration.
Map neural pathways, study paleontology at the oldest natural history museum in the nation, or engage in in-depth physics research your very first year — the world is yours for the taking. Whether you want to break out into your field right away or pursue some form of graduate studies/medical school, where do you want to go with your degree?
Undecided Opportunities
If you want to explore our academic options, then the First-Year Exploratory Studies program may be your best starting point. This program can help you identify and clarify your personal, academic, and career goals, exposing you to different programs of study across the University for an entire academic year. At the end of year one, you’ll then transfer into the major that is the best fit for you. Our Goodwin College of Professional Studies is home to our Interdisciplinary Professional Studies, which is designed to allow you to pursue in-depth preparation for the professional workplace in a variety of areas of study. With this program, you can tailor the curriculum to your unique goals and earn valuable credentials via minors, certificates, and specializations.
No matter which way you go, know that this is only the beginning — your program options are endless here at Drexel. What passion will you discover?