Career Clusters

Discover your applied learning and research opportunities through our career-related degree clusters.
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Degrees Designed to Define Your Career.

Our majors and minors are organized by career-related clusters to make it easier to find what you’re looking for and discover opportunities you haven’t considered. Pair your design major with a business minor. Enhance your biology degree with a minor in cultural anthropology. Nearly every degree major can be combined with a minor from another cluster. We encourage you to create a bigger, broader path of study that allows you to do more at UW-Stout and in your career.

Still Undecided? It's Ok if You Don't Know.

And you aren't alone. Up to 80% of college students admit they are unsure of their major, even if they've declared one. That's where our polytechnic advantage helps, because the value of applied learning and research goes beyond your degree—it will also help you choose one. Hands-on experiences are about discovery, so it’s ok if you don’t know what you want to do yet. As you prepare to apply, and even after you’re admitted, we have tools, tips and support to help you discover what you’re driven to do.

Discover Our Resources for Undecided Students

Career-Focused, Real-World Experiences.

As early as your first semester, you'll be immersed in a career-focused applied learning:

  • Participate in our Grow. Persist. Succeed (GPS) and Cooperative Education & Internship Programs.
  • Engage in undergraduate research in our labs and out in the field.
  • Benefit from strong industry ties with opportunities for project-based learning.
  • Meet with employers recruiting for full-time professional positions.
  • Attend one of the largest career conferences in the Midwest.

Student Highlights

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Solutions for space debris and cybersecurity threats among UW-Stout students’ research topics at state Capitol Featured Image

Solutions for space debris and cybersecurity threats among UW-Stout students’ research topics at state Capitol

Undergrads demonstrate applied learning at Research in the Rotunda
Blue Devil grads get blue-chip jobs with Fortune 500 firms Featured Image

Blue Devil grads get blue-chip jobs with Fortune 500 firms

Survey finds rising pay, 99% employment rate for recent UW-Stout alums
Career-connected learning: SkillsUSA brings nearly 400 middle, high school students to UW-Stout Featured Image

Career-connected learning: SkillsUSA brings nearly 400 middle, high school students to UW-Stout

Engineering, technical, design competitions prepare young people for future careers