Whois & Analysis for otterbein.edu

Otterbein University is a small, highly residential, private, four-year liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, United States.

It offers 74 majors and 44 minors as well as eight graduate programs.

Featured programs include engineering, business management, education, and music, as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine.

The academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits.

A student who successfully completes all courses established in an academic major qualifies for an undergraduate degree.

The word "major" is also sometimes used administratively to refer to the academic discipline pursued by a graduate student or postgraduate student in a master's or doctoral program.

The term may also apply to a focused field of an academic discipline that a student chooses at the doctoral studies level.

A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average.

A distinction is typically made between graduate schools (where courses of study vary in the degree to which they provide training for a particular profession) and professional schools, which offer specialized advanced degrees in professional fields such as medicine, nursing, business, engineering, or law.

The distinction between graduate schools and professional schools is not absolute, as various professional schools offer graduate degrees (e.g., some nursing schools offer a master's degree in nursing).

Also, some graduate degrees train students for a specific profession (e.g. an MSc or a PhD in epidemiology trains a person to be an epidemiologist).