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This major studies natural hazards, climate and environmental change, groundwater, lakes, oceans, earthquakes, volcanoes, tectonics, minerals, fossils, soils, sediments, rocks—the Earth itself!
What is Earth Sciences?
This major teaches you to design, develop, and test new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as aerodynamics, structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods.
What is Aerospace Engineering?
People in this field work for society by analyzing, designing, and supervising the construction of roads, buildings, water supply systems, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and wastewater treatment systems.
What is Civil Engineering?
This major uses mathematical theory, computational techniques, algorithms, and the latest computer technology to solve economic, scientific, engineering, physics, and business problems.
What is Mathematics?
This discipline interacts with nature at a fundamental, molecular level—its composition, properties, and transformation into new substances.
What is Chemistry?
This major designs and applies technologies to resolve issues of environmental concern. They design systems that produce safe drinking water, treat wastewater so that it can be reused, accommodate municipal and hazardous waste, mitigate air pollution, and protect public health.
What is Environmental Engineering?
This major uses the principles of physics and mathematics to learn about the fundamental nature of the universe, including the sun, moon, planets, stars, and galaxies.
What is Astrophysics?
This discipline teaches you to design, build, test, and install high-tech computing devices for everything from the most powerful supercomputers to the tiniest, most energy-efficient microprocessors used in virtually all components of modern technology.
What is Computer Engineering?
This field develops programming languages and operating systems, designs computer software and hardware, applies computational techniques to other sciences, investigates social uses of computing, and advances new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics.
What is Computer Science?
This major integrates chemistry and engineering to solve problems involving the production or use of chemicals. They frequently specialize in particular chemical processes or in the development of products such as fertilizers and pesticides, automotive plastics, or chlorine bleach.
What is Chemical Engineering?
These scientists are interested in understanding the processes that occur within, and interactions between, the atmosphere, ocean, and land to ensure human activity on our planet is sustainable.
What is Environmental Geosciences?
This versatile major encompasses energy, transportation, bioengineering, environmental engineering, medical device design, heating and refrigeration, fluid power and fluid mechanics, manufacturing, and nanofabrication.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
This area of study explores and generates technological advances that impact virtually every aspect of modern life – dealing with the study, research, design, and application of electricity, electronics, circuitry, and electromagnetism.
What is Electrical Engineering?
This area of study is experiencing a faster than average growth rate and teaches you to extract meaningful insights from large volumes of data.
What is Data Science?
Graduates of this field are developing materials for the next wave of technological advances: Nanomaterials for electronic devices; biomaterials for implants; new materials for high performance batteries and solar cells; and more.
What is Materials Science and Engineering?
This major brings together biological sciences, engineering principles, and technology to address society's growing demands for material, food, and energy using renewable resources.
What is Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering?
People in this field explore the fundamental properties, laws, and structure of all forms of matter—living and non-living. They examine the relationships among space, time, matter, and energy.
What is Physics?
Graduates of this major apply the principles of engineering and science to the problems of planning, analysis, design, construction, and operation of facilities on and under the surface of the earth. Aspects of this field appear in infrastructure projects, mining activity, and petroleum production.
What is Geoengineering?
This field designs, plans, and manages large-scale and complex systems such as global supply chains, healthcare delivery systems, business and financial services, and manufacturing facilities.
What is Industrial and Systems Engineering?
By combining biology and medicine with engineering principles and practices, this major teaches you to develop devices and procedures that solve medical and health-related problems.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
How many owls are hidden in the architecture of Walter Library?
225
There are five campuses within the University of Minnesota system - Crookston, Morris, Rochester, Duluth, and Twin Cities. What are their mascots?
Crookston - Eagle
Morris - Cougar
Twin Cities - Gopher
Rochester - Raptor
Duluth - Bulldog
There is a myth that if you walk under this statue will make you fail a class.
Tin Man outside of the Mechanical Engineering building
What apple is the UMN famously known for developing?
Honeycrisp
Paul Bunyon's axe is the trophy that is won when playing which football team?
Wisconsin Badgers