wellesley alumnae talk about their majors
         
 
Wellesley offers over 50 different majors to students. These are listed below, along with the percentage of students on campus in Fall 2007 majoring in each of these fields.

Major
Percent
Africana Studies
<1%
American Studies
2%
Anthropology
1%
Architecture
<1%
Art- History
4%
Art- Studio
2%
Astronomy
<1%
Astrophysics
<1%
Biological Chemistry
4%
Biological Sciences
6%
Chemistry
3%
Chinese
<1%
Chinese Studies
<1%
Cinema and Media Studies
1%
Classical Civilization
<2%
Classical and Near Eastern Archeology
<1%
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
2%
Comparative Literature
<1%
Computer Science
2%
East Asian Studies
2%
Economics
16%
English
9%
Environmental Studies
2%
French
4%
French Cultural Studies
<1%
Geosciences
<1%
German
<1%
German Studies
<1%
Greek
<1%
History
4%
Individual Majors
<1%
International Relations
<1%
International Relations- Economics
1%
International Relations- History
<1%
International Relations- Political Science
2%
Italian Studies
<1%
Japanese
2%
Jewish Studies
<1%
Latin
<1%
Latin American Studies
<1%
Mathematics
3%
Media Arts and Sciences
1%
Medieval/Renaissance Studies
<1%
Middle Eastern Studies
<1%
Music
1%
Neuroscience
6%
Peace and Justice Studies
2%
Philosophy
2%
Physics
1%
Political Science
10%
Psychology
7%
Religion
2%
Russian
<1%
Russian Area Studies
<1%
Sociology
3%
South Asia Studies
<1%
Spanish
5%
Theatre Studies
1%
Women's Studies
2%