The purposes of the 3-2 program are to provide the student with a traditional engineering education augmented with a strong liberal arts background and to provide a broader and deeper exposure to mathematics and its applications than would ordinarily be possible in a four year engineering program. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Flexibility to customize a curriculum to meet your own personal interests and career goals
• Supportive, experienced faculty
• Internship and research opportunities

Designed for students who have already earned their bachelor's degree and who want to complete the additional coursework required to become a licensed Registered Nurse. The accelerated nursing track can be completed in just 15 months and prepares you for one of the fastest-growing career fields through coursework and clinical experiences. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Intensive track includes coursework and clinical experiences designed to ensure that you’re ready for immediate employment
• Accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and approved by the Montana State Board of Nursing
• Experienced, supportive faculty guide you through the program

You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of financial reporting, auditing, financial analysis, planning, and taxation as well as develop your communication skills, ethical reasoning, and analytical abilities. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Individualized attention and personal interaction with professors who are experts in their fields
• Opportunities to work closely with local business professionals
• Classes introduce leading-edge environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting (environmental, social, and governance issues)
• Nearly 90% of our accounting students complete internships or work for regional accounting firms, local non-profits, area businesses, and governmental agencies while enrolled at Carroll

Learn to monitor and analyze financial trends, investment techniques, and banking functions, as you broaden your understanding of personal and managerial finance. Explore a variety of business disciplines in your coursework as you prepare for a career in this fast-paced technology-driven field. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Engage in team activities while analyzing real-world problems
• earn from faculty who have financial industry experience
• Build the strong ethical foundation and globally informed knowledge and skills necessary for today's dynamic professional environment

You’ll explore the human–animal bond and interactions through a variety of disciplines including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Develop the knowledge and skills that will help you improve lives through animal-assisted therapy, veterinary medicine, humane education, wildlife preservation and other service occupations. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Combines core liberal arts and classroom theory with specialized psychology courses
• Hands-on work with horses, dogs, cats, and even wild animals
• Internship and research opportunities with our partner organizations

An innovative program that combines biochemistry and molecular biology in a highly interdisciplinary way. You’ll discover the most fundamental roots of health and disease in ways that challenge you to develop strong deductive, analytical, and quantitative skills. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Understand life, health, and disease at the molecular level
• Cutting-edge, hands-on research projects in the lab or in Montana’s great outdoors
• State-of-the-art lab facilities

Discover, explore, and expand your understanding of the natural world through this dynamic academic journey. You’ll learn why and how the field of biology can enhance life for everyone. Prepare for advanced study in areas like medicine, and develop a more proactive mindset when it comes to environmental conservation and sustainability. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Unique campus location surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and other natural wonders offers unparalleled experiential learning opportunities
• Exciting, ground-breaking research opportunities
• Celebrated faculty, modern equipment, and newly renovated facilities

Learn the theory and practice of business as you build a solid foundation in business principles and explore the ever-expanding role of technology and innovation in business. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Accomplished business faculty who bring exceptional industry experience into the classroom
• Courses that strengthen your understanding of the importance of ethics in business
• Study abroad opportunities to expand your understanding of global business practices

Learn to think like a scientist as you integrate an atomic/molecular view of matter with principles from math and physics. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills you need to become an independent and creative thinker who can solve problems, develop your laboratory skills, make critical evaluations, and communicate scientific data through written and oral presentations. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• State-of-the-art E.L. Wiegand Integrated Research and Learning Lab
• Internships and research opportunities
• Prepares you for graduate and professional schools as well as for a career in chemistry

Develop the broad base of knowledge you need to benefit people locally, nationally, or all over the world. Learn to design, construct, manage, operate, and maintain the civil infrastructure—including systems that protect and manage water resources and the environment. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Focus on the social value of engineering while mitigating environmental impact through sustainable engineering solutions
• Customize a curriculum to meet your own personal interests and career goal
• Four major areas of study: structures, environmental, water resources, and transportation

Gain intercultural awareness and learn the moral foundations of communication as you prepare for a career in public relations or journalism, or as a secondary education teacher of communication, speech, or forensics. Serve others and promote peace on all levels—interpersonally, socially, and globally. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Develop the ability to use communication constructively and unselfishly
• Focus on intercultural understanding and the ability to treat people of all backgrounds with tolerance and respect
• On-campus TV station may provide internships and job opportunities

Explore how you can take computer technology and put it to use in commercial environments. This Computer Science track combines applied Computer Science with Business and prepares you to solve practical problems by working individually and collaboratively. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Design and develop technology solutions in class through project-based learning
• Tailor projects and experiences in courses to fit your interests
• Benefit from knowledgeable and experienced faculty who provide individual attention and Professor mentorship

Gain experience with the theory and practice of computer science as you explore algorithms, programming languages, and operating systems. Choose from 3 main tracks (Computer Science, Computer Information System, or Computer Science with an emphasis in another discipline) that will provide you with a solid foundation to work in the rapidly changing field of computer technologies. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Personalized, real-world learning experience
• Focus on application development, systems engineering, database design, and management, data mining, or specialize in a technology area of your choice
• Gain an understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security, and social issues and responsibilities

Develop a broad and deep understanding of constitutional government. You’ll benefit from interdisciplinary training in the politics, history, and philosophy of constitutional government and develop the effective communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills to apply that knowledge. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Gain practical work experience through the Political and Legal Internship Program
• Develop your writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills
• Diverse courses give you experience in political science, history, theology, and philosophy

Blends the fields of mathematics, computer science, statistics, and business analytics to provide a unique and integrated learning experience. Gather, wrangle, and visualize data as you learn to make predictions based on past behaviors. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Use mathematics, statistics, data analysis, and computer science to solve and analyze real-world data science problems
• Create and use computer programs to apply data science tools in a variety of contexts
• Develop models using appropriate statistical methods and analyze statistical and computational models in applied settings.

Find success in the K-8 classroom. Develop your intellect, imagination, self-confidence, and motivation as you gain essential understanding of child development and learner behavior. This elementary education program prepares you to teach in the many content areas required for the K-8 classroom setting. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• A variety of courses and internships that provide opportunities to experience the classroom and develop the skills you need to teach effectively
• Develop strong teaching skills that aid in any profession for which education and training are required
• Strong educational curriculum built upon a liberal arts education, influenced by traditional educational philosophies

Expand your understanding of life and prepare to conquer the world. You’ll learn how to combine analytical skills, research, reading comprehension, and your own innate creativity to forge your own path. Develop and hone your writing skills as you prepare for graduate school, or your chosen profession. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Edit and publish our annual literary magazine, Colors
• Opportunity to Intern at a variety of organizations—local publishing companies, the Montana Historical Society, or an independent bookstore
• Study abroad: everywhere from Ireland to Madrid, or Chile to Italy

Learn from experienced entrepreneurs how to develop a business plan for your own idea, then work with a professional mentor to develop your idea and take it as far as possible—even to commercialization.

Program Highlights

• Work closely with experienced entrepreneurs through lectures and mentorship sessions
• Receive academic and non-academic (extra-curricular) training to develop new business and entrepreneurial ideas
• Benefit from real-world practical instruction in the formation and advancement of new business ventures that can result in viable businesses

Define your path by what you enjoy. An Environmental Science degree combines a soundly integrated and interdisciplinary science background with coursework in analytical methods and applications, abundant field experience, and aspects of the human dimensions of environmental science to prepare you to make a difference as you pursue your career. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Choose your concentration: Wildlife conservation, earth science, water resources, energy, environmental health, chemistry/toxicology, law and policy, sustainable agriculture, nature writing, outdoor leadership, and more
• Unique Rocky Mountain campus is the ideal location for experiential learning outside and inside the classroom
• Get prepared to confront the current environmental challenges in our world

This critical in-depth study of morality and ethics was created to help you develop a better understanding of ethics and values in all aspects of human life and be better prepared for a career in ethics—or an ethical career in any field. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Discussion of ultimate truth and ultimate good
• Creates an awareness of the role of ethics and values in many areas of personal and social endeavor
• Prepares you to make ethical decisions in your life, career, and all areas of social interaction

Challenge and enrich your appreciation of the study of fine arts including music, art, and theatre. During your studies, you’ll gain a greater appreciation for these creative forms of self-expression. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Understand how social and artistic movements have shaped theatre and the performing arts in the world today and throughout time
• Broaden your range of interest in and understanding of music
• Create and express yourself through visual art assignments

Learn how gender identities are shaped by culture and community. Discover the academic foundation you need to understand and evaluate the critical issues of gender facing contemporary society. Gain insight into your own life and daily interactions. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Explore the differences and similarities between females and males from an interdisciplinary perspective
• Learn how gender representations from visual media impact images of self
• Learn how we get from “sex” to “gender”

Focus on treating and supporting patients beyond the scope of a doctor or nurse. You can prepare for a career in a variety of health care fields by gaining specialized knowledge, skills, and evidence-based perspectives of local, national, and global health challenges and solutions. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Interdisciplinary programs that emphasize biological, quantitative, and social sciences
• Prepare for a broad range of careers in the health science industry
• Major in Health Sciences, or major or minor in Public Health

Understanding society locally and globally begins with an appreciation of history. You’ll learn to think critically and analytically about a variety of topics with a sense of historical awareness. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Small classes provide individualized attention
• Develop knowledge and skills that prepare you for a career in the field of history and provide you with insight into current affairs
• Courses include: European, American, East Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American history

Explore the world around you as you develop the critical knowledge and skills you need to understand globalization, diplomacy, international conflict, and human rights in our increasingly interconnected world. This interdisciplinary program helps you to think analytically and discuss critically while preparing you to pursue a career in international business, government, law, teaching, and other related fields. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Understand and improve our interconnected world
• Study or intern abroad
• Prepare for a career in one of the fastest-growing fields

The Reading K-12 minor prepares you to diagnose reading difficulties and teach reading at all school grade levels. Investigate, reflect, analyze, and judge reality and truth through inquiry and discussion as you develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of a literacy specialist. Upon completion, a Reading (K-12) endorsement will be added to your teacher's license. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Classroom management and coping
• Classroom motivation and interaction
• Planning and lesson design

Prepare for a career in advertising, market research, sales, public relations, or communication and promotion. Marketing teaches you how to combine a variety of activities to create value for customers, business owners, and broader society through design, communication, and delivery of products and services. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Understand market demand and consumer behavior
• Learn how to apply fundamental marketing principles to help businesses
• Gain a deeper understanding of business

Start or grow your accounting career while focusing on the issues that matter most. The fully online Master of Accountancy (MACC) program at Carroll teaches you both technical accounting knowledge as well as the soft skills needed to thrive in any professional setting. In addition, you will learn about generating profits in a sustainable manner and how to fight for social, economic, and environmental justice within the field of accounting.

Program Highlights

• Sustainability Accounting/Integrated Reporting (ESG reporting)
• Forensic Accounting and Data Analytics
• Not-for-Profit Accounting
• NASBA Ethical Leadership Certification
• Peregrine Write & Cite® Training

Further your career and develop the knowledge and skills you need to be a clinical social worker. This hybrid program pairs interactive online learning with hands-on field experiences. Created to help you prepare for licensure and develop clinical skills to support victims of trauma and other key populations served by this in-demand profession.

Program Highlights

• Engaging online courses that intentionally combine structured and self-driven learning options
• Intensive skill-development sessions—offered online or in-person—that help you refine knowledge and skills needed to provide effective services
• High-quality, individualized internship experiences in your area that provide cutting-edge opportunities to integrate knowledge and skills learned in the classroom with real practice

Use mathematics to model and solve real-world problems in small classes, with program flexibility that allows you to tailor your degree plan to your specific interests. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Learn from a math program that has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation to support its unique teaching approach
• Develop expertise in an area of applied mathematics with cognate concentration courses in your field of interest
• Acquire the specialized knowledge and skills you need to get into the career or graduate program you choose

Through a holistic approach to health care, you’ll be guided by accomplished faculty as you begin your clinical experiences and gain access to a broad range of clinical settings. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• The Carroll nursing program prepares you to take and pass the national licensure exams (NCLEX) and enter the workforce ready to work and make a difference
• State-of-the-art facilities together with faculty expertise help you develop confidence in your skills
• Nationally recognized and accredited

Appreciate the whole person by recognizing the uniqueness of each individual student as you prepare for a career educating P-12 students with varying abilities and special needs at all grade levels. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Develop effective classroom management and coping strategies
• Learn skills that aid in classroom motivation and interaction
• Understand planning and lesson design

Investigate the most fundamental questions facing all human beings and immerse yourself in ongoing discussions of ethics and truth. A versatile philosophy degree can prepare you well for a wide range of careers. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Develop a strong foundation in both the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy
• Learn to creatively respond to complex issues and to form, defend, and critique arguments.
• Engage in rigorous analysis and honest discussion of questions concerning ethics and value, justice and politics, knowledge, science, culture, beauty, love, God, and many other topics.

Get acquainted with topics including relativity, quantum physics, and optics as you develop into a successful and creative thinker, able to analyze a wide variety of problems, apply appropriate models to them, and derive quantitative predictions from those models. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Evaluate and interpret data and analyze information from a variety of sources
• Learn how to operate various types of laboratory equipment, including computer-controlled data acquisition
• Apply appropriate approximations that render mathematical problems amenable to analytical solutions or accurate computer simulations

The perfect foundation for a career in law, politics, teaching, journalism, or foreign service, political science helps you develop your skills in writing, critical thinking, and communication as you gain broad and deep knowledge of legal and political systems in Montana, the United States, and worldwide. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Our location in Montana's state capital gives you unparalleled access to state and federal government
• Smaller classes and excellent professors
• Legal and political internship programs

Law schools are looking for strong students who have demonstrated an ability to read, write, and think critically. Our pre-law pathway has an excellent track record of placing students in law school. You’ll receive the support and guidance you need, supported by recommended courses that will give you a firmer grounding in law before attending law school. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Consistent record of placing students in law schools
• Excellent pre-law advising and instruction
• Internship opportunities

Create the foundation for a future in medicine or dentistry through courses in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English.

Program Highlights

• These pathways prepare you for entry into graduate school
• Well-rounded perspective of a liberal arts learning experience
• Graduates of Carroll pre-med and pre-dental programs are accepted into some of the finest graduate programs in the region and the country at much higher rates than the national average

Prepare for your future through a solid foundation of courses required by several occupational therapy graduate programs (check individual graduate schools for specific information about pre-requisites).

Program Highlights

• These pathways help you develop the skills needed to provide therapeutic assistance to individuals of all age ranges
• Rigorous training and coursework
• Supportive faculty

Focus on your future as you use your coursework in biology, chemistry—or other areas of study—to pursue a future in optometry (check individual admission requirements for Doctor of Optometry programs).

Program Highlights

• This pathway prepares you for top Doctor of Optometry programs in the region and in the country
• Experienced faculty who provide the support you need
• Combines humanities and science courses to produce a well-rounded education

Build your math, science, communication, and social skills to pursue your Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Our pre-pharmacy undergraduate pharmacy pathway gives you the tools you need to succeed in any pharmacy graduate program.

Program Highlights

• Challenging prerequisite courses that give you the educational background in math and science as well as good communication and social skills
• Experienced faculty and advisors
• Opportunities to observe at local pharmacies

Continue your studies in Health Science, Psychology, Sociology, Health and Physical Education, Biology—or another area of study—as you prepare to pursue a future in physical therapy (check individual graduate schools for specific information about pre-requisites).

Program Highlights

• Customized pathways can accommodate the admission requirements of most graduate programs
• Provides you with a thorough understanding of what you can expect as a physical therapist
• 1:1 support from experienced, supportive faculty

One of the fastest-growing pathways at Carroll will prepare you to become an integral part of any medical institution. Focus on medically related studies including human anatomy, microbiology, and chemistry, then follow up with direct patient care (check individual graduate schools for specific information about pre-requisites).

Program Highlights

• This pathway focuses on essential medically related sciences including microbiology, anatomy, and physiology
• Prepares you for Physician Assistant (PA) programs across the country
• Helps you build a successful career path in healthcare

Designed to prepare you for veterinary graduate programs and successful careers in veterinary medicine, the pre-veterinary program at Carroll College gives you the academic knowledge and problem-solving skills you need. Turn your biology, chemistry, or anthrozoology (or other major) into a future caring for animals in veterinary medicine.

Program Highlights

• This pathway has resources to help you build a strong graduate school application
• Well-developed research tactics that help you work efficiently independently or within a team
• Strong support from specialized faculty

The study of Psychology combines science with human service to strengthen the human condition. You’ll learn about the major theories, methodologies, applications, and databases used by psychologists. You’ll also develop essential skills in communication and critical thinking. Unique offerings like our Experiential/Adventure Therapy Course make psychology a popular major. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on experiential learning opportunities
• Small classes
• Enthusiastic faculty

The Health Sciences Department includes pre-professional training for a wide variety of healthcare fields. These areas of study focus on treating and supporting patients beyond the scope of a doctor or nurse. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Prepare for your future as a physical therapist, occupational therapist, physician’s assistant, chiropractor, athletic trainer, health educator, healthcare manager, dietitian, environmental hygiene specialist, and more
• Specialized programs help you develop knowledge, skills, and practical experience
• Excellent track record of Carroll graduates being accepted to professional programs

Develop your communication skills and knowledge in all facets of communications. Choose one of three concentrations (Marketing, Print Journalism, or Television Production) to gain practical communication and relationship-building skills. Available as a minor.

Program Highlights

• Public speaking and theories of organizational communication
• Develop an understanding of mass media and its crucial role in communications
• Learn about marketing and social behavior

Combine your love of language with your passion for education. Learn from experienced professionals who will guide you from your first day in the classroom through your student teaching placements. Grow in wisdom and confidence as you become a trusted educator who can effectively teach English to grades 5-12. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes
• Personalized attention from Experienced faculty

You’ll develop a deep understanding of mathematical principles as you learn how to handle a classroom. Under guidance of education faculty, you will receive the support you need from your first day in the classroom through your student teaching placements to effectively teach mathematics to grades 5-12. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes
• Personalized attention from Experienced faculty

With the guidance of education faculty who coach you from your first day in the classroom through your student teaching placements, you’ll gain the depth of field knowledge and human understanding needed to effectively teach science to grades 5-12. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes
• Personalized attention from Experienced faculty

Designed to provide you with a well-rounded understanding of social studies and the classroom management skills you need to teach grades 5-12. This program is comprised of at least 54 semester credits of content-area course work, with a concentration in history and political science, and additional course work in economics, geography, psychology, and/or sociology. Available as a major.

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes
• Personalized attention from Experienced faculty

You’ll develop the tools you need to better understand the structure and function of social groups, communities, and societies. Delve beneath the surface of everyday reality to perceive the deeper meanings, recurring patterns, and concomitant structures that constitute the social world. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• View social ills through the lens of social justice within a Catholic, liberal arts curriculum
• Address social problems such as crime; economic, racial, and gender inequalities; environmental issues; and much more
• Prepare for meaningful work that combines your passions with your skills and purpose

Immerse yourself in the language and culture in order to confidently speak, read, and write in Spanish as well as gain a better understanding of Latin American and Spanish history, culture, and contemporary social issues. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Small class sizes of no more than 20 students allow for individualized attention from faculty
• Gain confidence in your ability to speak, read, and write in Spanish
• Develop the skills needed to communicate clearly in Spanish in both formal and informal settings

Develop your theatrical appreciation and your skills as you study and participate in every aspect of production work. You’ll receive one-on-one attention to develop as a theatre practitioner. You'll learn by doing—not just watching. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Our season consists of four productions per year, chosen to expose students to a range of theatrical styles
• Opportunity to immerse yourself in all aspects of theatre
• Off-campus opportunities at Grandstreet Theatre and The Helena Theatre Company

Explore Christian theology in the Roman Catholic tradition through its biblical and intellectual heritage, to understand the basic principles and concepts of biblical, moral, and doctrinal theology from a Catholic perspective. Available as a major or minor.

Program Highlights

• Deepen your understanding of the particularity of Catholicism in relation to the broader Christian tradition
• Discuss important questions about the role of the Christian faith in contemporary culture
• Develop a solid knowledge of and appreciation for different faith perspectives

Gain global competencies through high-impact global learning experiences including internships, research, volunteering, service-learning, and study abroad programs.

Experience the liberal arts in a unique way. Join a small group of students and participate in seminars that combine a variety of disciplines to illuminate the compelling ideas that shape our world.

The ideal way to gain on-the-job experience, an internship can open the door for your career. We have established contacts in a variety of industries that make it possible for you to create an internship based on your interests.

As a minor under ROTC, practice critical thinking capabilities as you learn and apply leadership and management skills to evaluate ethical and moral issues. Enhance your overall ability to lead effectively in these changing times.

U.S. Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) is an elective curriculum with outside-of-the-semester (and military) requirements which gives you the tools, training, and experience to succeed in any competitive environment. Take the program along with your required college classes.

Pursue your interests in research, scholarship, and creativity. From science to arts and humanities, the variety of undergraduate research methods and modes of presentation vary, but all work to show the best reflection of intellectual pursuits.

Gifted fifth-through-ninth-grade students can experience a one-week residential program to enhance their cognitive and social development. Created to serve a diverse range of talented students, this program takes place every summer on the Carroll College campus.

Explore religious, literary, historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives to evaluate how we think about the natural world. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) this three-week seminar is designed for K-12 teachers and administrators.

Surround yourself with the beauty of the Rocky Mountains and gain an appreciation for the majesty of the creation in which we live by praying, thinking, and playing during three days at Carroll College and two days at Yellowstone National Park.