You’re a do-er and a problem solver. With a degree in engineering, technology or aviation from Saint Louis University, you will not only be technically prepared for some of today’s most in-demand careers, you’ll also be well equipped to make the world a better place.

At SLU, you’ll have opportunities to collaborate with world-class faculty to solve real-world challenges, from designing more efficient space systems to improving product design for people of all abilities to pursuing life-changing biomedical research.

Professors across SLU are nationally recognized teachers, practitioners, researchers and mentors, so no matter what you decide to study, your academic experience will be rigorous and collaborative.

Personalize your degree

Your major is only part of what makes your academic experience unique. Minors let you explore an interest or add expertise that can make you more attractive to future employers.

At SLU, you can choose from more than 100 undergraduate minors, so there’s something to fit just about any academic interest you have. To view a sampling of the unique courses we offer, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page!

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Learn by Doing

SLU prepares you for post-graduation success with opportunities to apply what you're learning to real-world settings.

Research Opportunities Start Your First Year

While many universities reserve research opportunities for graduate students, as an undergraduate at SLU, you’ll have opportunities to participate in innovative work designed to improve lives

You can participate in research in a number of ways: through coursework, informal lab assistance and working directly with faculty in their labs. Students in the School of College and Engineering work with faculty on research in these areas and more:

  • Aviation Education
  • Aviation Safety
  • Biomaterials
  • Biomechanics
  • Cardiovascular and Assist Devices
    • Engineering Education
    • Engineering Mechanics and Materials
    • Haptic and Human-Machine Interfaces
    • Human Factors and Physiology
    • Hydrodynamics and Environmental Fluid Mechanics
    • Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    • Space Systems
    • Structures and Bridges
    • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
    • Transportation
    • Unmanned Aerial Systems and Flight Control Systems
    • Water Quality and Treatment

Making Connections

"There's a lot of opportunity within St. Louis. The people at SLU are always trying to help get you connected to the people outside of SLU."

— Dante Drennan, Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2020

Looking for an extra challenge?

You may be interested in SLU’s Honors Program. A fit for any major, the University Honors Program offers honors-only courses and smaller, seminar-style classes. In addition to selective internships, independent research projects and study abroad semesters, the program also offers grants for students who want to pursue scholarly research or creative practice projects with the support of a faculty member.

Megan Shockley, Engineering, Class of 2020, says,

"The thing I love the most about living in the Engineering and Innovation Learning Community is that you get to live on the same floor with the people who will be in your classes for the next four years. This guarantees that you’ll have some amazing friends and resources not only for your first year, but for the rest of college, as well."

Megan Shockley, Engineering, Class of 2020

Megan Shockley, Engineering, Class of 2020 says, "The thing I love the most about living in the Engineering and Innovation Learning Community is that you get to live on the same floor with the people who will be in your classes for the next four years. This guarantees that you’ll have some amazing friends and resources not only for your first year, but for the rest of college, as well."

Megan Shockley, Engineering, Class of 2020

Live and learn with others from your major

The Engineering and Innovation learning community is an excellent opportunity for you to live with students who share your interest in engineering, physics and flight science. Located in our newest residence hall, Grand Hall, this community is popular with first-year School of College and Engineering students.

Members of the learning community live on the same residence hall floor, take classes together and participate in events and activities together outside the classroom. In this community, you’ll also have exclusive access to a Maker Space in Grand Hall.

Scholars Program

Saint Louis University’s scholars programs encompass not only what you learn but how you go about learning it. They embrace academic rigor, cultivate passion for experiential learning and encourage intellectual curiosity.

Are you thinking about attending medical school someday? Students accepted into SLU’s highly selective Medical Scholars Program will have the opportunity to gain conditional early acceptance to SLU’s prestigious School of Medicine.

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Working with SLU Alum to Solve Real-World Problems

Rose Dunn, a graduate of SLU’s health information management program, now CEO of a local consulting firm, returned to SLU to provide current health information management students with valuable real-world practice. Dunn shared with students issues that a local hospital recently faced, and students worked in teams to research the problems, analyze available data and propose solutions.

"Being able to work on a real-life case proved to be more challenging than any case we have been presented with from the textbook," Rose says."It really revealed all of the hard work that it takes to accomplish large projects in an organization. There are many barriers, such as employee resistance, that you don’t encounter in a hypothetical situation."

Campus Tech, Labs and Research Center

The classroom isn’t the only place for scholarship at SLU. Students and faculty can continue their research in centers and labs in all fields of engineering and aviation.

Featured lab equipment includes:

Impactful research

Connor Highlander, Class of 2020, says, "Undergraduate students start right away doing research. Starting early, focusing early — I couldn't have done that everywhere, which is one of the reasons I'm grateful for SLU. As a senior, I'd been in the lab for four years, which is pretty cool."

Connor Highlander Class of 2020

Quick facts

Spend your first semester in Madrid

The Ignatian Global Network In Technology and Engineering (IGNITE) program is a unique study abroad experience for high-achieving first-semester engineering students to begin their studies at Saint Louis University’s campus in Madrid, Spain.

From an Undergraduate Research Lab to NASA

SLU aerospace student Lindsey Jasper’s participation in designing unmanned autonomous satellites in SLU’s Space Systems Research Lab helped her land job with NASA the summer after her sophomore year, working as a systems engineer in their ground-based systems and aeronautics division.

Lindsey says the variety of hands-on experiences she’s had at SLU make all the difference. "So much of engineering education is looking at ideal situations — like physics problems that have no friction," she says." That doesn’t happen in the real world. Things don’t work like they do in perfect textbook environments. So by having all this hands-on experience, you end up being someone who can look at a real-world problem and effectively solve it by using the theory you know from the classroom and real-life practice."

Already thinking about graduate school?

In addition to programs at the prestigious Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Law, SLU offers more than 100 graduate programs to choose from, with many ranked in the nation’s top 50 in their disciplines. Many of our graduates also go on to pursue graduate degrees, medical degrees or law degrees at top-ranked institutions.

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Hollywood and History: Storytelling through History and Film

Through the use of storytelling from both history and film, explore the wide diversity of narratives in American culture. Movies and field trips connect the topics to local events and historical sites.

Madonnas, Witches, Rebels: Women and Gender

Explore the work of female Italian writers, thinkers, filmmakers and artists through the lens of gender and feminist theory. Study women’s changing roles and experiences in Italian history, as well as class, ethnic and racial differences among Italian women.

Spirituals, Motown and Hip Hop: African American Social History and Music

The history and evolution of African-American music is rich and complex. Explore music genres within historical time frames to fully understand the origins, growth and development of black music and the experiences of African Americans.

Jewelry and Metalsmithing

Explore the basic techniques of traditional and non-traditional metalsmithing. The course includes reviews of current and historical jewelry concepts. Take part in demonstrations, critiques, projects and concept development.

The New Flamenco Experience

Traditional Spanish dance with a contemporary flair. Learn rumbas, tangos and bulerias, and then show them off at modern flamenco clubs around Madrid, Spain. The perfect choice for a student interested in mastering Spanish dance in only one semester.

Irish Cinema

Focus on how Irish film engages with and complicates familiar Irish cultural issues, including nationalism and postcoloniality; the Catholic / Protestant divide; gender and sexuality; nostalgia and landscape; exile and emigration. In addition to exploring modern Irish history and culture, students study Irish cinema in terms of genre and aesthetics.

Superheroes and Social Justice

Comics allow for a suspension of disbelief that renders philosophical thought experiments about morality not only accessible but riveting. Examine some of the best and most pertinent morality plays the medium has to offer as you learn the fundamentals of bioethics and explore the practical implications for modern health care ethics.

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Morality Politics in the United States

Morality politics is defined as the legal sanction of right and wrong. Examine the historical foundations of legislating morality in the United States, including the prohibition of alcohol, the war on drugs, capital punishment and same-sex marriage.

Soviet Agents/Spies on Screen: Filming Espionage in the East and West

Explore ways in which Soviet and post-Soviet directors examined Russia’s history of espionage in connection with Russia’s extensive secret police network by comparing their works with those of their Western counterparts in an effort to explore political and cultural dimensions to the portrayal of espionage on screen.

Archaeology

Get an introduction to archeology as a subfield of anthropology, as well as the scientific methods and procedures, tools and techniques used by archaeologists to investigate, reconstruct, interpret, preserve and learn from artifacts, features and ecofacts.

Psychology and the Soul

Consider the intersection between psychology and theological conceptions of the "soul" and "self." Gain the critical means by which to think about the relationship between psychology and religious beliefs and experiences.

A Post-Human Future? The Ethics of Technology

Technological advances are changing the way we understand human nature. This course provides the forum for asking if this is a change for the better. Identify and understand key issues in the development and use of technology.

Latin American Business

Focus on the cultural, historical, economic, social, political and business environments in Latin America and on the activities of multinational corporations therein.

Asian Business

Become acquainted with Asia’s basic business environments, styles and practices of Asian management and the implications of the Asian business environment. Get practical knowledge of the complexity of the business environments of the region and incorporate the analytical skills and strategic thinking into the reality of the Asian markets.

Talent Management

Explore human resource planning, recruitment policies and practices at all organizational levels, including pre-employment selections, interviewing and testing techniques and tools, appraisals and development of employee resources, internal personnel administration and equal employment opportunity affirmative action programs.

Astrodynamics

Explore space environment and two-body problem and get an introduction to orbit mechanics, rigid body dynamics, satellite dynamics, rocket performance and re-entry dynamics.

The Air Force Today

Designed to introduce you to the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, this course explores the mission and organization of the Air Force, officership and professionalism, military customs and courtesies and other skills.

Airport Planning

Become acquainted with the basic concepts of airport planning and construction, as well as investigation of various community characteristics and resources.

Aviation Weather

This course will provide the fundamentals of meteorological theory with a specific application to aviation and flight. Appropriate weather services that are available to the pilot will be covered.

Spanish Civil Architectural Infrastructure: Ancient and Modern

This study of civil engineering, architectural and construction practices within the Spanish civilization is focused on interrelationships between humans and structures such as aqueducts, canals, dams, bridges and highways. Includes a two-week field trip in the Spanish countryside.

Foundations in Traditional European Cuisine

Get an introduction to the cuisine of Europe with an emphasis on classical French cuisine and the theories, techniques, recipes and formulas for cooking developed principally by Chef August Escoffier. Learn about the production of stocks, sauces, soups and various entrees, along with traditional cooking techniques and knife skills, in hands-on labs.

Human Growth and Development through the Lifespan

Explore the basic theories and principles of development, influences on the developing person, and norms of development from birth through old age, including physical, mental, emotional, social and moral-spiritual characteristics.

Criminology: The Nature of Crime

Begin to understand the nature of crime by exploring theories of why criminals offend, considering both individual and contextual level factors that contribute to or facilitate propensities toward criminal behaviors.

Education of the Exceptional Individual

Study the concept of exceptionality and specifically address the implications of atypical educational development. Explore alternative instructional strategies, educational decision-making, special education resources, inclusive programming, and related issues.

Children’s Literature and Media

Examine a wide variety of literature and media created for children, considering genres, how children’s literature and media is used to develop literacy, notable authors and illustrators, and ways to critically analyze literature and media from diverse perspectives.

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