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Academics

A community of learners, scholars and teachers

Find yourself. Lose yourself. Get your answers questioned and your questions answered.

A Brandeis education is a vigorous exploration in critical analysis, creativity and self-expression. Our faculty combine innovative teaching with groundbreaking research and scholarship. Immerse yourself in the liberal arts and sciences, and engage in research that excites you, with faculty leaders in their fields.

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School of Arts and Sciences

As an undergraduate in the School of Arts and Sciences, you can pick from among 43 majors and 51 minors in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts. No need to settle on just one major, or even a major and a minor. Almost half our students double major and some even minor in a third discipline.

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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Students in Brandeis’ 40 master’s and 17 doctoral programs learn from and conduct research with many of the best and brightest scholars in their fields.

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Brandeis International Business School

Learn more about our four graduate business programs, our undergraduate business major and minor, and the five-year BA/MA program.

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Heller School for Social Policy and Management

The Heller School has master’s degree and doctoral programs focusing on policy creation and implementation.

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Rabb School of Continuing Studies

The Rabb School’s four divisions (Graduate Professional Studies, Summer School, Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Precollege Programs) embrace continuous lifelong learning and development regardless of a student’s age.

Student Experiences

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Each spring, Brandeis students vie for a spot in Advocacy for Policy Change, a course that gives them the opportunity to lobby for the passage of a bill at the Massachusetts State House.

Dalia Moran ’24 and Arianna Jackson ’25 were paired to lobby for Bill H.2209/S.1457, an Act promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options.

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