Random College Major Generator
Random college major by field.
Built and maintained by Paul Clark, Redmoon Software · Last checked
When "undecided" starts to feel permanent, drawing a random major can shake the list loose. The generator holds 86 majors across five fields — 20 in STEM alone — and can restrict picks to STEM, business, health, arts, or humanities. Use it to break analysis paralysis before a registration deadline, run "what would you study" icebreakers, or challenge yourself to argue for whatever it lands on.
Choose. Pick a field, or leave it on Any for any major.
Click Pick a major to see a result.
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How it works
- Choose. Pick a field, or leave it on Any for any major.
- Pick. Click "Pick a major" to draw one at random.
- Explore. Reroll for more ideas, then look into requirements with your school's advisor.
- Cycle. Turn on no-repeats to work through a field's full list without duplicates.
About the Random College Major Generator
Five fields, or all of them at once
Leave Field blank and the draw covers everything — STEM, business, health, arts and humanities pooled together, with each result labelled by field. Choose one and you draw only from it.
Because all fields are pooled uniformly when none is selected, the fields with more majors in the list contribute more results. That is worth knowing if you are trying to survey the space fairly: draw from each field in turn rather than from everything, and you get even coverage.
This is a research prompt, not a recommendation
A randomly drawn major is not advice about what you should study. It is a name you have probably not considered, and the useful action is to spend ten minutes finding out what the degree actually involves and where people who take it end up.
Most of them you will reject immediately, which is the point — a fast no is still information. The value of the tool is in the two or three that make you think "I did not know that was a subject", and those only appear if you draw enough to get past the majors you already knew about.
There is a longer piece on using it this way, and on why the obvious three suggestions everyone gives you are not a shortlist.
What the list contains
The pool holds common undergraduate majors as they are named in the United States. Names vary by country and institution — what is one degree here may be two elsewhere, or called something entirely different — so treat a name as a topic to search rather than a course to look for.
With No repeats on, the tool works through the pool without repeating until it is exhausted, which makes it usable as a way to see everything in a field rather than sampling it.
Frequently asked questions
How many majors does each field contain?
86 in total: 20 STEM majors, 17 business, 16 health, 16 arts, and 17 humanities. Filtering by field restricts the draw to that field's list; leaving it on Any draws from all 86.
Does no-repeats reset when I switch fields?
No — the tool keeps a separate used-majors list per field, so cycling through STEM without repeats doesn't affect a later run through humanities. Each list resets only once its field is exhausted.
Is this meant to replace an academic advisor?
No. It's a discovery and brainstorming tool. Once a major catches your interest, confirm the actual requirements, course load, and career fit with your school's advisor before changing anything official.
How is this different from the single picker tool?
The single picker draws from a list you paste yourself. This tool ships with its own curated bank of 86 majors organized by field, so you don't need to build a list first.
Can I use it for an icebreaker or writing exercise?
Yes — "defend the major you draw" works well as a classroom debate warm-up, and fiction writers use random majors to flesh out student characters. The field label under each result helps set context.
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Further reading
- A random major is a research prompt, not a verdict
Drawing a random college major won't tell you what to study — and it isn't supposed to. Here's how to treat each draw as a 20-minute research assignment that widens your options instead of a fortune-teller that narrows them.
- Escape the three majors everyone keeps suggesting
Ask five people what you should major in and you'll hear the same three answers. A random college major generator is a cheap way to widen a shortlist that narrowed for the wrong reasons — before you commit to whatever your parents or friends already do.