Popular Majors Over Time

Assembled by Kelsey Smith

Metropolitan State College of Denver officially became Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2012. The university has grown, changed, and adapted since its inception in 1965, and so have its students. Academic interests are continually developing along with the state and the nation as a whole, and we can see that reflected in courses of study that students choose to pursue.

Below looks at the top 20 undergraduate majors across the university, and how they’ve shifted over the past decade.

Curious about how this might look at the college level? Here we see the changing academic interests of four major colleges at MSU.