From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• Hands-on, experiential coursework.
• America’s 14th largest city and its many internships and career opportunities.
• Faculty who are practicing professionals who work to ensure quality internship opportunities for students with industry leaders ranging from Honda and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to JPMorgan Chase and KPMG.
• Professional opportunities with campus media production facilities, including radio and digital news outlets.
• Study abroad opportunities to expand your worldview of the global market.

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• The chance to address complex challenges that affect communities and institutions.
• Experiential education with many field experiences.
• Access to an incredible array of internships.
• Close mentoring relationships with and individualized attention from faculty.
• The opportunity to publish research and present at conferences.
• An understanding of how to be a positive catalyst for effective social, institutional, and policy reform.
• Experiences that prepare you to enter the workforce or pursue a graduate education.

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• Timely coursework designed to build your knowledge and network.
• Getting hands-on with internships and field experiences.
• State-of-the-art facilities including Nursing simulation labs, the Biomechanics Institute, and the Knowlton Center for Equine Science.
• A flexible curriculum designed to enhance career and professional passions with room to add a second major or minors.
• Individualized attention from accomplished faculty and access to industry leaders.
• Experiences ensuring you understand best practices and emerging trends.

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• Timely coursework designed to build your knowledge and network.
• Getting hands-on with internships and field experiences.
• State-of-the-art facilities including Nursing simulation labs, the Biomechanics Institute, and the Knowlton Center for Equine Science.
• A flexible curriculum designed to enhance career and professional passions with room to add a second major or minors.
• Individualized attention from accomplished faculty and access to industry leaders.
• Experiences ensuring you understand best practices and emerging trends.

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• Access to leading University and visiting humanities scholars.
• Personal mentoring and research collaboration with nationally and internationally known humanities faculty.
• Immersive experiences like local and national internships, presenting at national humanities conferences, or publishing in Otterbein’s student-run journals or ‘zines.
• Humanities travel courses to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
• Access to Otterbein’s National Humanities Endowment funds to support research, travel, and humanities events.

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• The chance to address complex challenges that affect communities and institutions.
• Experiential education with many field experiences.
• Access to an incredible array of internships.
• Close mentoring relationships with and individualized attention from faculty.
• The opportunity to publish research and present at conferences.
• An understanding of how to be a positive catalyst for effective social, institutional, and policy reform.
• Experiences that prepare you to enter the workforce or pursue a graduate education.

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH

From day one, you’ll benefit from:

• A rigorous hands-on curriculum and individualized attention from faculty.
• State-of-the-art facilities in the Science Center and The Point.
• Opportunities to conduct research, present at national scientific conferences, and publish in scholarly journals.
• Help in securing local, national, and international internships.
• Ability to shadow medical professionals in regional hospitals and veterinary clinics.
• Travel courses throughout the world.
• Purposeful program flexibility allows you to balance STEM with other passions.

While many students experience anxiety when they are not sure of a college major — Otterbein students often take pride in their intentional decision not to declare a major.

As an undeclared student, you will be surrounded with resources to learn more about who you are, what your strengths and interests are, market and job trends, and will get support in building an academic plan.

You also can start as undeclared in Business, Humanities, or STEM if you have interests in those areas but are unsure of which academic program to choose.

While there is not a specific “pre-health profession” or “pre-med” major, see some of the suggested options and academic programs that provide a solid educational foundation for graduate studies.

These majors will also prepare you for the required national entrance exams for these professional health schools and programs.

For those students interested in a Pre-Law track, Otterbein does offer a minor in Legal Studies/Pre-Law.