Academic Services and Support

Whether you are studying International and Global Studies; Theater Arts; or Health: Science, Society and Policy, Brandeis offers you an academic home.  The curriculum exposes you to a wide range of thinking, with classes in the Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts.  Within the university requirements is the opportunity for exploration.  For example, students might take an economics or sociology course to fulfill their quantitative reasoning requirement or take a course in chemistry and art to fulfill their science requirement.  Each year, a number of students design independent interdisciplinary majors in fields as varied as media studies, comparative religion and environmental education.

Brandeis offers a rich support system of faculty, staff and peer advising to help you with your questions and concerns about every aspect of your first year and beyond.  The Office of Academic Services provides a central location for academic advising and academic programs.  Staff members are available to offer guidance in the areas of study abroad, prehealth aspirations, disability accommodations, and general curricular advising.  In addition, a team of upper-class peer mentors known as the Roosevelt Fellows works closely with the first-year advisers to counsel and coordinate all academic advising efforts for first-year students.  The Office of Academic Services also works with you to foster first-year success.  Workshops, tutoring and the Student Support Services Program are available for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

With a student to faculty ratio of 9 to 1 and a median class size of 17, the Brandeis academic experience is one in which your professor will know you by name.  In addition to this, the Undergraduate Departmental Representatives program is designed to open avenues of communication between undergraduate majors and departmental faculty.  

UDR’s, Undergraduate Departmental Representatives, are students hand picked by the faculty to act as representatives for the department. Acting as a resource on campus, UDRs serve as a direct connection to your major of choice, helping organize socials with professors, organizing tutor groups and providing quality feedback to faculty and staff. 

Have any question about a particular major? Learn more by contacting a Student UDR.

Study Abroad

Each year, more than 40 percent of the junior class takes advantage of one or two-semester study-abroad opportunities at Brandeis-approved programs in nearly seventy countries.  Students from every major are eligible to participate.  So combine your zest for adventure and your desire to grow by studying abroad for a total-immersion learning experience.  You will return to Brandeis with a new perspective and with the confidence that comes only from finding your way in a new culture.

Other Resources:

Advanced Placement Chart

Academic Calendar