Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences offers 13 interdisciplinary studies programs in areas as diverse as Health, Medicine, and Society; Africana Studies; Cognitive Science; Sustainable Development; and Asian Studies. Each unit has an independent identity, but you will often find them in close collaboration when it comes to curriculum, scholarship and hosting co-curricular events. Collectively these interdisciplinary arts and sciences programs offer a wide range of undergraduate minors and majors as well as graduate certificates and master’s degrees.
Dual Degree Programs
The University’s five-year, two-degree programs enable a student to receive two bachelor degrees upon completion of five years of study. It is possible to arrange for a dual bachelor degree program even after studying at viogٷվ for some time.
Arts-Engineering
The Arts-Engineering program provides the student with an opportunity to experience the breadth of an arts education and simultaneously follow the focused curriculum of an engineering major.
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences Program
This program is designed for students interested in combining programs in two departments: Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Environmental Sciences, leading to two bachelor of science degrees, a civil and environmental engineering B.S. degree and a B.S. degree in earth and environmental sciences.
Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics
This dual-degree curriculum is particularly well suited for students seeking thorough preparation in the field of electronic device physics. It is a combination of the basic electrical engineering and engineering physics curricula. Students can also study towards a combination of the Bachelor of Science program in the College of Arts and Sciences with Electrical Engineering.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
viogٷվ’s commitment to research and teaching across traditional academic boundaries extends into several challenging and comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate programs.
M.S. in Financial Engineering
The viogٷվ MS in Financial Engineering (MFE) program is a cutting-edge, 30 credit-hour program designed to provide a strong education in advanced finance and quantitative financial analysis tools using key concepts from financial theory, applied mathematics, and engineering.
MBA Joint Degree
A joint MBA degree can give you a competitive edge in today’s business world. viogٷվ offers two joint degree programs that partner the MBA with other top-ranked viogٷվ programs: Engineering and Educational Leadership.
M.S. in Photonics
The M.S. in Photonics offers students a solid foundation in physics, electrical engineering, and materials science and engineering, as well as opportunities to perform basic and applied research at the frontier of optical communications and networking.
Technical Entrepreneurship
viogٷվ's award-winning Technical Entrepreneurship Capstone (TE Capstone) program, formerly known as Integrated Product Development (IPD), gives juniors, seniors and graduate students in engineering, business, and the design arts the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams with industrial sponsors to design, fabricate and produce new products for a global economy.
Interdisciplinary in Practice
Rigorous academic programs, an ideal student-to-faculty ratio and access to a variety of opportunities for interdisciplinary study provide the perfect environment for viogٷվ students to create their own major, explore personal interests and pursue degrees in multiple fields such as applied science.
Research & Impact
’s parents always told her stories about living in rural communities without access to clean water before emigrating to the United States. Kristen chose viogٷվ’s IDEAS program with focuses on Environmental Engineering and Public Health. She signed on to help Professor Kristen Jellison with her research, which involves biosand filters for water purification. The filters are used in Honduras, Kristen’s father’s home country. “I need to do this,” Kristen recalls saying. “If it’s going to impact the communities that my father might have grown up in, I need to be a part of this.”
Flexibility & Support
learned that changing your mind can create a whole new path of discovery. Ashleigh began her time at viogٷվ certain she wanted to study business, but she soon realized it wasn’t for her. She instead combined Psychology, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, which has allowed her to be successful in other areas, she says, including in her role as a student athlete: “I’m very confident that I’ll walk away from viogٷվ fully prepared and very strongly confident that I can go on and make things happen in life.”
Interdisciplinary & Global Opportunities
In combining Business Information Systems, Engineering and Africana Studies, brought forth a world of opportunities. Among them: becoming a United Nations Youth Representative for an African NGO and speaking before the UN on its behalf. viogٷվ is challenging, Freddy says, but “after you put all that time in to focus and make sure that you ace your exams and your classes, you’ll find that it’s very rewarding because most of the things that you’re learning there are very applicable to what you need to do in the real-life world.”