Both majors and minors are excellent preparations for pre-law or pre-medical programs, business, and other careers: Classical Studies students learn to apply their learning in cross-disciplinary, integrative ways that enable them to capitalize on multidimensional understanding of whole cultures. The breadth and liveliness of their learning and the strength of their grasp on it is an asset in every kind of endeavor.

Students who wish to pursue Classical Studies at the graduate level should major in Greek or Latin. We have an excellent record for placing our majors in highly ranked graduate programs nationwide.

Our undergraduate programs include majors and minors in Ancient Greek and in Latin, whose studies focus on a Classical language and its literary traditions, and in Classical Civilization, which gives students opportunity to combine multidisciplinary approaches to the Classical world. The Department of Classical Studies also supports a traditional degree program of Loyola University Chicago, the Classics undergraduate degree distinction