Majors & Programs

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Bachelor of Science

In Champlain’s Accounting program, learn the language of business and start uncovering the stories behind numbers.

Learn to assess, analyze, and manage risk and liability—a perfect career-building minor for math lovers and problem solvers looking to support a business.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

Imagine manifesting your colorful childhood imagination on screens large and small. Now imagine getting paid to do it all day.

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Bachelor of Science

Use math to tell stories, crack real-world issues, explore diverse applications, and gain problem-solving skills for future success in many industries.

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Bachelor of Science

The way we think about the environment can’t be separated from the way we think about people, and vice versa. Learn the skills to cultivate a career in a growing field.

Use human skills to drive machine action. Become an inspirational innovator in the world of artificial intelligence.

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Bachelor of Science

Find the stories worth telling—then use your multimedia skills to tell them through a wide range of broadcast media, including podcasts, motion graphics, social media, and more.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

So you mean business? Good, so do we. Start gaining real business experience at great Vermont entrepreneurial companies like Burton Snowboards as early as your first year.

Look at the data: Champlain’s Business Analytics minor is a program dedicated to delivering students the experience needed to professionally handle statistics.

Dive into the business side of game development with the Game Business & Publishing major. Prepare for your specific chosen career with our concentrations.

Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Cinematography concentration and dive deep into camera work and creating video images at Champlain College.

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Bachelor of Science

For our digital future to be secure, information must be safe. Earn real-world experience in computer networking and cybersecurity at Champlain College, and prepare yourself for a vital role protecting society from cyber threats.

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Bachelor of Science

Help create the digital future. Free your creativity, do real work right away, and fuel your passion for technology and innovation.

Build a strong foundation in crucial mathematics and data management systems so that you can identify problems and formulate solutions. You’ll learn to reconcile conflicting objectives and find compromises in our Computer Science concentration.

Tailor your Education degree with a Computer Science Education concentration and learn the skills to teach students to use computer technology to solve problems at Champlain College.

Analyze problems, develop software systems, and use a variety of tools to evaluate computer programs and bring your innovations to realization in the Computer Science minor.

Develop a practical way of mediating conflict in your workplace, community, and personal life with Champlain College’s Conflict Management Minor.

Dive into the business side of game development with the Game Business & Publishing major. Prepare for your specific chosen career with our concentrations.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

Develop your self-expression in our Creative Media major, and learn the businesses side of interdisciplinary production, digital creation, and entrepreneurship.

Hone your personal creative voice and study the art of creatively stringing words together to create meaning, inspire action, and tell a story – from social media to children’s books.

Justice at all levels is a keystone of a functional society. Learn the criminal justice process at multiple levels and how your knowledge of this system can benefit your career.

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Bachelor of Science

Make communities safer. Build a better and more just system. Be an agent of organizational change.

Develop the critical skills to help protect businesses and organizations from ever-evolving cyber threats. You’ll learn to detect vulnerabilities and recommend physical, logical, or administrative controls to mitigate the risks.

Learn to develop and understand the security components of technology environments. Find solutions for networking and security problems while balancing business concerns and technical issues.

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Bachelor of Science

Use data to find solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. Champlain’s Data Analytics major is about real-world application, giving you skills for any field that uses data. And all fields use data.

A concentration in data science uses knowledge of statistics, business and social sciences to collect and manage data responsibly as a way to make informed decisions. Dive into the data that inspires real change towards a more sustainable future with our concentration in Data Science for Sustainability.

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Bachelor of Science

Design your own major through Champlain’s Degree Design Lab. You’ll combine courses and real-world learning experiences to personalize your own education.

Discover the complexities and interdependencies of our environments, communities, governments, and economies with a concentration in Dialogue and Consensus Building.

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Bachelor of Science

Release your digital investigation skills. Adopt the investigator’s mindset, solve mysteries, and master artifact discovery with Digital Forensics at Champlain College.

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Bachelor of Science

Be a digital pioneer. Bring the fullness of your human self to the study of emerging technology, including Artificial Intelligence, and make sure the digital future is humane as well as human.

Get the fundamentals of marketing down in the modern digital workplace. Use web-based tools to study metrics, enhance search engine optimization, assist in web development, and more.

Tailor your degree with a Directing concentration and develop the on-set skills necessary for a successful career in directing at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Early Childhood Education concentration and develop the skills to educate children from birth to age eight at Champlain College.

Tailor your Writing & Publishing degree with an editing and publishing concentration and develop expertise in editing and prepare for various roles within the publishing world at Champlain College.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Teaching is the ultimate way to shape the future. At Champlain College, you’ll be in classrooms during your first year, building deep expertise that leads to licensure.

The next generation of caretakers of a sustainable future need you. Be the inspiration for tomorrow’s leaders, change-makers, and community members with our concentration in Education for Sustainability.

Tailor your Education degree with a Elementary Teacher Education concentration and develop the skills to teach elementary children K through age 6 at Champlain College.

Learn how to turn ideas into profitable businesses or non-profit with an Entrepreneurship minor.

Dive deep into environmental issues and solutions from different angles including environmental communication, environmental law, and environmental policy assessment and development. Build a toolkit of skills in each of these areas to prepare for a career that makes an impact.

Study environmental issues and the politics surrounding them to discover the action-oriented practicalities of what people and organizations can do to change the world for the better.

In this broad concentration, you’ll explore the topics of climate change, energy policy, and environmental law. Further specialize your learning by digging deep into topics you’re passionate about.

Explore concepts of the individual, family, and community. Further develop your understanding as you discover the connections between them within historical, political, and social climates.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

Master the production of motion pictures and understand the global business of filmmaking. Use the latest tools, work on real projects, and turn your vision into reality through observation, imagination, storytelling and technical skill.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

The world operates on resources: time, money, people, location. Earn a degree in Finance and direct resources to things that matter.

Tailor your Psychology degree with a Flex Path concentration and explore applications of psychology to the field of your choice at Champlain College.

Learn to collect and assess digital evidence through the analysis of financial transactions to prevent fraud and deception in the business world.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Champlain College is a gaming industry hub, and the Game Art program builds your creative vision and your technical skills to make you job-ready.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Gaming is global, and its future requires business leaders who understand the industry. Champlain College is a hub for gaming – study Game Business & Publishing and learn alongside your future peers.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

As a Game Design major at Champlain College, you’ll start building worlds on day one, preparing for a burgeoning industry. And you’ll understand the strategies, narratives and motivators that compel people to play.

Explore the production of visual game assets, developing creative confidence and building a toolbox of technical skills.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

This one-of-a-kind program prepares you to guide the teams creating tomorrow’s games. Immerse yourself in collaborative, hands-on projects in the Game Production Management major at Champlain College.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Create successful games, build your portfolio, and learn programming within a creative gaming culture when you major in Game Programming at Champlain College.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Learn sound design from industry experts at Champlain, working with the same technology the pros use. Apply your skills and become a key part of a game development team, crafting successful games from start to finish.

Examine the physical, mental, and sociological aspects of aging, including the ways that society changes with an aging population with the Gerontology minor.

Explore current issues, history, and languages of specific regions and countries around the world. Engage with theories and perspectives on political, economic, and social dynamics of globalization.

Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication major with a Graphic Design concentration and master artistic training and technique and explore the production of studio work.

Perfect your technical skills while learning how design impacts messaging and vice versa. Explore the latest digital-image software and learn how to create professional communication materials.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Be a design thinker. Harness your creativity through print and digital graphics. Start building your portfolio right away.

Tailor your Psychology degree with a Health & Wellbeing concentration and explore the impact of biological, social, and physical factors at Champlain College.

Discover the best practices for working with employees and management within an office while following legal requirements and effectively enforcing company policies.

Master technical design implementation at Champlain College, creating engaging user experiences through coding, prototyping, and usability testing.

Become an information system analyst and develop the critical skills needed to successfully support organizations in our Information Systems and Technology concentration.

Identify core computer networking and infrastructure components and the roles they serve to supplement business, finance, creative, and other professional pursuits.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Tomorrow’s technology requires good design to be usable. Specialize in user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) design at Champlain, and create new intersections between human minds and digital spaces.

Discover different types of narratives that are immersive, non-linear, and engage our audience in a wholly new and unique way. Learn to design these narratives and create all new experiences.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Put your audience in the writer’s seat to create immersive and infinite games, virtual simulations, experiences, and digital stories.

The world of business is increasingly interconnected. Develop the skills to navigate international markets and develop market strategies that address ethical, sustainability, and profitability objectives in our International Business concentration.

Identify the opportunities and challenges of navigating the variety of international markets, cultures and geopolitical contexts that arise when conducting business on a global scale.

Examine the complex histories, cultures, political activities, and expressions of LGBTQ people while exploring larger social and institutional foundations like media representation and human rights.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Study law as an undergraduate at Champlain College and start your legal education right away, during your first semester. Go on to law school afterward or choose a different path; either way, you’ll be ready.

Management is all about resources–maintaining, supporting, and administering the assets of an organization from financial to people resources. Learn to create and implement policies and processes to support a common organizational mission in our Management concentration.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Start building your professional marketing skills right away, taking hands-on courses in your first semester. Intern with local companies, and graduate career-ready.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Businesses run on stories and data. Tune in to emerging marketing strategies and graduate ready for your career, with impressive industry-standard certifications.

Acquire a solid foundation in mathematics theory, techniques, and applications that will inform work in your chosen career, and boost your résumé to help you get there.

Effective media production is a foundation of any successful business. Learn about streaming, social media and traditional media, as well as how to write, produce, and edit content for each.

Tailor your Education degree with a Middle Grades & Secondary Education concentration and develop the skills to teach grades six through 12 at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Middle Grades English Language Arts concentration and develop the skills to teach english and language arts at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Middle Grades Mathematics concentration and develop the skills to teach mathematics and critical thinking at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Middle Grades Social Studies concentration and develop the skills to teach the topic of social studies at the middle school level at Champlain College.

Push the mobile app development field forward with advanced coding techniques and user-centric design, creating innovative experiences in a digital world.

Dive deep into bringing visual concepts to life in innovative ways with our Motion Graphics for Broadcast Media Production concentration.

Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Editing (Motion Graphics) concentration and dive deep into bringing visual concepts to life in innovative ways at Champlain College.

Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication degree with a Motion Graphics concentration and dive deep into bringing visual concepts to life in innovative ways at Champlain College.

From social media reels to movie screens, the moving image is dominating today’s media. Explore the production and technical elements of moving image creation.

Develop personal and professional leadership abilities through a variety of different thinking styles and problem-solving skills. Discover the confidence to be a leader and innovator in your field.

Industries are increasingly considering the environmental impact of their work as part of their business models. Build a foundation of business and marketing skills as they apply to the environment.

Tailor your degree with a Producing concentration and explore the production process of filmmaking from start to finish at Champlain College.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Study human motivations and the latest neuroscience in a career-focused Psychology major that prepares you for this dynamic field.

Discover the applications of real-time 3-D animation within media such as games, virtual reality, and virtual film production. Hone the artistic and technical skills needed to succeed in the field.

Study the creation of 3-D art for real-time media like games, virtual reality, and film production. Develop the artistic and technical skills needed to create high-quality 3-D models and textures.

Sustainability is the future of business – and it’s far more than being “less bad”. Create change by tailoring your degree with topics like corporate social responsibility in our Reinventing Business Through Sustainability Concentration.

Learn how to conduct research and analyze the game market. Use this data to ensure the most successful possible release for your game based on the information you collect.

Tailor your degree with a Screenwriting concentration and master the art of crafting scripts for a variety of media types at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Secondary Level English Concentration and develop the skills to teach the topic of english at the high school level at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Secondary Level Mathematics Concentration and develop the skills to teach math at the high school level at Champlain College.

Tailor your Education degree with a Secondary Level Social Studies Concentration and develop the skills to teach social studies at the high school level at Champlain College.

Tailor your Psychology degree with a Social Change/Social Impact concentration and explore the intersections of culture and social justice at Champlain College.

See your work through the lens of social justice. Learn how social, economic, and political issues influence each other and affect an individual’s or community’s essential rights.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Social Work

Uplift families, empower individuals, and heal communities with Champlain’s Social Work major.

Master the art of creating innovative, reliable, and scalable software solutions that have the power to revolutionize industries and our ways of life.

Specialize in designing and producing artistic and creative sound from the fundamentals to advanced audio production and film scoring with our Sonic Arts concentration.

Create the atmosphere, set the mood, and intensify action— Explore the technical art of sound design.

Tailor your Filmmaking degree with a Sonic Arts concentration and dive deep into the technical art of sound design at Champlain College.

An organization must think beyond finances. How a company impacts its community, environment and society as a whole determines its long-term sustainability. Learn to consider complex social, environmental, and economic factors as a purpose-driven leader with our concentration in Sustainable Business.

Bridge the gap between design and software development. Create dynamic designs and implement them with code for mobile apps, web apps, and other forms of electronic media.

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Undeclared

It’s ok not to know what you want to study or what career to pursue—we’ve got you covered. Our Upside-Down Curriculum lets you explore your options and interests, even if you’re unsure about a major.

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Undeclared

Apply Undeclared in Communications & Creative Media to find your voice, artistic talent, and creative passion—and turn them into a career path unique to you.

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Undeclared

At Champlain, we’re building the world we want to live in using human-centered technology. Apply Undeclared to ITS to discover how you can shape the future with us.

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Undeclared

The School of Social Innovation is all about positive impact. Apply Undecided to explore how your career can improve livelihoods and build better futures.

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Undeclared

One of the most innovative and versatile fields, choosing Undeclared in Business at Champlain College is the first step to countless career opportunities in Burlington and beyond.

Become a versatile creator and push creative boundaries by studying a combination of drawing, printmaking, photography, and digital art.

Tailor your Graphic Design and Visual Communication major with a concentration in Visual Communication and specializing in using visual design to execute messaging, branding, and information sharing.

Free your creativity, master visual design, and create compelling experiences at Champlain College’s Visual Design concentration in Interaction Design.

Degree Type for Majors

Bachelor of Science

Talent is an amazing ingredient, but it’s not the whole recipe. Working writers need a solid foundation in the mechanics of writing, a storyteller’s gift for narrative, a poet’s eye for detail, and drive to keep adapting and improving improving in a fast-changing industry. Champlain College can give you all that and more.

Develop strong writing skills in technical writing like journalism and grant writing and more creative writing like poetry and fiction. Increase your media literacy and written communication skills.