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College of Arts and Sciences

SLU’s College of Arts and Sciences will educate your whole self — mind, body, heart, and spirit — to prepare you for a future in a rapidly changing world.

Across our many majors, the College of Arts and Sciences offers wide-ranging courses that serve as the framework for you to become a citizen of the world.

You can study the human brain, living organisms and their interactions with the environment, political, social, and economic systems, historical, religious, and philosophical ideas, mathematical models and data science, as well as the varied expressions of artistic creativity and human culture. Our programs offer unique opportunities that allow you to develop your interests and coursework in ways that prepare you for professional employment and a successful future. No matter what major you choose, you can bring your passions and your whole self to the College of Arts and Sciences.

Additionally, your specialized education in your major is integrated with SLU’s Undergraduate Core curriculum, which helps you to further examine the nature and substance of the individual person, as well as the essence of human creativity and imagination. The core will also help you understand the social and institutional structures of the world in which we live.

Your education in the College of Arts and Sciences will prepare you to make value-centered, ethically-based judgments as it develops and trains you to enter your vocational future as an effective leader for change.

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2024 Commencement ceremony

Academic Areas

By the Numbers
30+

Academic departments and programs

1930

Undergraduate students in 2023-24

409

Post-baccalaureate students in 2023-24

291

Full-time faculty members in 2023-24


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