ACADEMICS
Study Across Disciplines. Create Across Boundaries.
At Lawrence, the College and Conservatory work together in one connected learning community. You can explore widely, study deeply, and build an education that brings your interests together.
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Explore Widely. Think Deeply.
In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, you’ll build the skills that matter across fields: critical thinking, clear communication, creative problem-solving, and the ability to connect ideas. With close faculty mentorship and flexible academic paths, you can shape an education around your interests and goals.
Explore majors, minors, and programs across the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields.
Learn in small classes where professors know your work, your questions, and your goals.
Bring your learning together through a capstone project, research experience, performance, or creative work.
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Seek Out Your Sound
In the Conservatory of Music, you’ll study with exceptional faculty, perform with talented peers, and grow as an artist in a community that values both musical excellence and creative exploration.
Pursue performance, music education, composition, theory, musicology, jazz, or interdisciplinary study.
Combine musical training with liberal arts study through flexible degree paths and cross-campus collaboration.
Build confidence and experience through ensembles, recitals, opera, jazz, chamber music, and new music.
Majors & Programs
See Where your Passions Could Lead
Explore majors, minors, and programs across the College and Conservatory. Search by interest, degree path, or area of study to find what fits your goals.
ONE-OF-A-KIND EDUCATION
You Can Be More Than One Thing at Lawrence
At Lawrence, you do not have to choose just one path. You can combine interests across the College and Conservatory, connect ideas across disciplines, and create an academic experience that reflects who you are and where you want to go.
Pair academic interests in ways that help you explore widely, think creatively, and prepare for many possible futures.
Lawrence students have earned national recognition for outstanding musicianship and creative work.
Work closely with faculty members who challenge, support, and mentor you.
Choose from a wide range of academic paths across the College and Conservatory.
Lawrentian Spotlight
Marjorie Liu ‘00
“I thrived in Lawrence’s small classes, thrived under the mentorship of my professors, expanded my ideas of what life could look like and what mattered to me.”
DEGREE OPTIONS
Four Degrees. Infinite Possibilities.
Bachelor of Arts
Choose from 36 majors to build an academic experience that is uniquely yours and that will prepare you to thrive and succeed.
Bachelor of Music
Focus on performance, music education, theory, or composition while building the broader skills and perspective that help you grow as a musician, thinker, and collaborator.
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music Double Degree
Pursue music and another field at a high level, earning both degrees in five years while building a path that reflects the full range of your interests.
Bachelor of Musical Arts
Combine advanced music study, especially in jazz and contemporary improvisation, with another field that sparks your curiosity, creating a flexible path for 21st-century musicianship.
NEWS
Academic Features and Highlights
Explore recent stories about student research, faculty achievement, Conservatory performances, creative work, academic programs, and Lawrentians putting ideas into action.
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Lawrence University to launch Data Science & Statistics major
Read More: Lawrence University to launch Data Science & Statistics majorAndrew J. Sage, associate professor of statistics
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How the Lawrence University Makerspace is building a community of innovators
Read More: How the Lawrence University Makerspace is building a community of innovatorsStudents explore ideas in the Makerspace, led by Lee Gobenciong (right). November 2025. Photo by Adrian Stancil-Martin ’28
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Listening to your creative voice with Creator-in-Residence Patricia Smith
Read More: Listening to your creative voice with Creator-in-Residence Patricia SmithPatricia Smith, creator-in-residence at Lawrence University, will bring her creative practice into collaboration with students and the campus community.
