Academics
Build your best life.
Recognized as one of Kentucky’s most selective colleges, Berea College combines academic rigor with a diverse and supportive learning community. We encourage our students to explore opportunities that will make their four years unforgettable—from studying abroad, to paid internships and labor positions that allow them to explore their range of interests.
The Berea Experience
That's one faculty member for every nine students.
Our students come from 43 states and Washington, D.C., 3 U.S, Territories and 74 Countries other than the U.S.
Choose a major you're passionate about or design your own Independent Major.
Find what interests you
We work to develop well-rounded students who can write and speak about physics as well as they can experiment and perform theoretical calculations. We offer a very hands-on curriculum with active learning classrooms. Students also learn computational methods to simulate and model physics.
Majors and Minors
Berea College offers majors in 33 fields of study, along with 39 minors that can lead to Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and/or Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees. Don’t see your exact major? An Independent Major option is available to students who want to pursue a customized field of study that isn’t already an established major program.
Interdisciplinary Programs
Because the challenges of the world are not bound by academic discipline, Berea offers a variety of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary academic options to ensure you are prepared as broadly as possible for the world awaiting you.
This is my Classroom
Study Abroad
Whether you find yourself watching a show in London’s West End, hiking through the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, cuddling with koalas in Australia or negotiating in a Ghanaian market, abroad could be the best place you’ll take your academic career. Let Berea College help you explore the world!
No other college in the nation offers study abroad scholarships and financial aid packages as generous as the ones Berea grants. That’s because we want your pursuit to learn, work or volunteer abroad as accessible to you as possible.
Labor Program
We do things differently at Berea College.
Berea College is one of ten federally recognized Work Colleges. We hire every student to work in campus positions that enhance your education and prepare you for life after college. When Berea students enter the professional world, the experience they have gained in the Labor Program gives them an advantage over graduates from other schools.
Cody Myers ’17 credits his role as a student programmer as fundamental in his college education, and as the reason he landed a job at Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary software company.
As a student, Emely Alfaro-Zavala ’21 worked in IS&S, then as a computer science teaching assistant. Now, she works at Google.
Internships
From the classroom to the workplace—take what you’ve learned and turn it into experience. Work with our Office of Internships and Career Development to find or create your ideal internship. Get guidance on receiving academic credit and requesting funds to make it possible.