Whether that’s animal behavior or accounting, French or finance, music or mechanical engineering, you’ll find opportunities that other schools reserve for seniors and grad students. That’s why 92% of our first-year students come back for their second year — far above the U.S. average of 73.5%.
Bucknell is a small, private liberal arts university with three colleges: the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Freeman College of Management. But these three colleges aren’t islands. They’re uniquely intertwined, allowing you to follow your passions and uncover new interests without ever feeling boxed in. Join the choir as an accounting major, use computer engineering to decode an ancient language or take management classes as an engineer. The combinations are limitless.
Ariel Booker ’21, a psychology and women’s & gender studies major from Upper Marlboro, Md., has been interested in wrongful convictions since she interned at the Innocence Project in high school. Coming to Bucknell, she wanted to dive deeper into that subject and liked that Bucknell would allow her to “get into research earlier than students at other universities.”
Working side by side with her professor, Ariel began gathering data about the population of inmates who’ve been wrongfully convicted. She hopes to publish her findings soon.
OWEN SCHIELE ’22
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CHALFONT, PA
Owen Schiele ’22, a mechanical engineering major from Chalfont, Pa., spent a summer in Costa Rica researching renewable energy. While there, he and his fellow engineers developed a drip irrigation system powered by a wind turbine.
“As an engineering student, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to study abroad because of classes I had to take,” he says. “In Costa Rica, I got to learn international perspectives on how to implement new technologies and work with people outside my discipline.”
OWEN SCHIELE ’22
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CHALFONT, PA
Owen Schiele ’22, a mechanical engineering major from Chalfont, Pa., spent a summer in Costa Rica researching renewable energy. While there, he and his fellow engineers developed a drip irrigation system powered by a wind turbine.
“As an engineering student, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to study abroad because of classes I had to take,” he says. “In Costa Rica, I got to learn international perspectives on how to implement new technologies and work with people outside my discipline.”
FINANCE
SOMERSET, PA.
Helen Fish ’21, a finance major from Somerset, Pa., chose Bucknell because she wants to use what she’s learning to benefit others.
“My generation doesn’t just want to clock in and clock out; we want to actually make a change and help people,” she says. “A big piece of why I came to Bucknell was that I could be really involved in campus life, take on leadership roles and really make an impact on campus. I could see that students at Bucknell are super involved.”
FINANCE
SOMERSET, PA.
Helen Fish ’21, a finance major from Somerset, Pa., chose Bucknell because she wants to use what she’s learning to benefit others.
“My generation doesn’t just want to clock in and clock out; we want to actually make a change and help people,” she says. “A big piece of why I came to Bucknell was that I could be really involved in campus life, take on leadership roles and really make an impact on campus. I could see that students at Bucknell are super involved.”
Ariel Booker ’21, a psychology and women’s & gender studies major from Upper Marlboro, Md., has been interested in wrongful convictions since she interned at the Innocence Project in high school. Coming to Bucknell, she wanted to dive deeper into that subject and liked that Bucknell would allow her to “get into research earlier than students at other universities.”
Working side by side with her professor, Ariel began gathering data about the population of inmates who’ve been wrongfully convicted. She hopes to publish her findings soon.
OWEN SCHIELE ’22
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CHALFONT, PA
Owen Schiele ’22, a mechanical engineering major from Chalfont, Pa., spent a summer in Costa Rica researching renewable energy. While there, he and his fellow engineers developed a drip irrigation system powered by a wind turbine.
“As an engineering student, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to study abroad because of classes I had to take,” he says. “In Costa Rica, I got to learn international perspectives on how to implement new technologies and work with people outside my discipline.”
HELEN FISH ’21
FINANCE
SOMERSET, PA.
Helen Fish ’21, a finance major from Somerset, Pa., chose Bucknell because she wants to use what she’s learning to benefit others.
“My generation doesn’t just want to clock in and clock out; we want to actually make a change and help people,” she says. “A big piece of why I came to Bucknell was that I could be really involved in campus life, take on leadership roles and really make an impact on campus. I could see that students at Bucknell are super involved.”