Explore Majors and Careers
Choosing your college major and career starts with self-reflection.
Taking time to understand your interests, skills, values and goals will help you gain confidence when making future career decisions. Our Majors and Careers site has valuable information curated by our team of career experts to help you learn, explore and navigate your options and our recommendations for how to decide.
Your college major will focus on a specific academic discipline and chosen the field of interest. Through your studies you will gain knowledge and develop skills related to that discipline which can later be applied toward a variety of experiential learning opportunities available.
Career Counseling
Meet with a Career Counselor to help identify and investigate career options and develop opportunity search goals and strategies.
Self-knowledge
Learn to recognize your interests, skills, values, and help you set your major and career goals. Find out about assessments the CDC offers, including the Strong Interest Inventory, MBTI, and the online assessment Focus2.
Major and Career Possibilities
Browse through the majors at Purchase College to learn
about the major, career possibilities, career information, job search links and more.
Investigate Careers
Take the next step and learn from professionals in the field about careers that interest you - through informational interviews, Candid Career and more.
Grad School Preparation
Let the Career Development Center help you prepare for path to graduate or professional school - from choosing a program, the application process, meeting representatives at our annual Grad School Expo and more.