How does Tulane's liberal arts curriculum work for students who haven't chosen a major yet?

Tulane gives undecided students real room to explore before locking into a major. Undergraduates are admitted to a school, not to a specific major, and in Newcomb-Tulane College you complete broad general education requirements that naturally push you to take classes across several fields early on.

Tulane’s core structure includes foundational requirements in areas like writing, quantitative reasoning, and distribution-style coursework across disciplines. That means an undecided student might take, for example, a social science course, a humanities class, a lab science, and a writing course in the same year without falling behind.

Another helpful piece is that Newcomb-Tulane College serves all undergrads and provides academic advising separate from your eventual major department. Tulane also makes it fairly straightforward to combine interests through double majors, minors, and interdisciplinary programs if your exploration leads you in more than one direction.

The one thing to watch is that some specialized paths, especially in engineering, architecture, or pre-professional sequences, can be more structured from the start. But for most students in the liberal arts and sciences, Tulane offers genuine flexibility early on.