“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question that plagues every high schooler.  Most students know about the usual fields of study: medicine, law, teaching, and your occasional engineering.  What they don’t know, though, is that in college, students can major in pretty much well, anything.  Check out these nine majors below that you may not have ever though you could explore but could just pique your interest:

Astrobiology 

Astrobiology focuses on studying life in the universe. Since these researchers are looking for life outside of Earth, they need to have an understanding of life, planetary systems and stellar interactions and processes. By understanding these topics, they are able to understand how life is able to survive in different environments and conditions. By studying the planets, astrobiologists are looking to see if they are able to sustain life.

Where It’s Offered: University of Washington and Penn State

Degree:A bachelor’s to start of with

After College:Astrobiology researcher, scientist or educator

Viticulture and enology 

Viticulture deals with cultivation and harvesting grapes, while enology is a science that studies wine and the process of winemaking. They will study the science and business that happens when growing grapes.

Where It’s Offered: Cornell University

Degree: Bachelor’s and Master’s

After College:Winemaking, vineyard management, teaching and research, wine businesses

Blacksmithing

Students learn all about working with precious metals and iron. In this major, then you’ll learn how to use various metal-smithing tools such as drill presses, hydraulic presses, power rolling mills, and stomp shears.

Where It’s Offered: Southern Illinois University

Degree:Bachelor of Fine Arts, Metal-smithing Concentration

After College:Careers in academia and museum work, independent artist

Floral Management

Floral Management studies the distribution, purchasing, marketing and designing floral products. This means that they will work to make sure that the floral merchandise that is on display meets the company’s standards, such as the presentation, safety, the cleanliness, and the sales suggestions. 

Where It’s Offered: Mississippi State University

Degree:Bachelor’s

After College: Freelance floral design, garden design and management, hotel/casino hospitality floriculture management, horticultural therapy, media design and styling, retail floristry, specialty visual design, traditional and concept floriculture retailing, wedding and bridal design planning, wholesale floral management

Egyptology 

Egyptology gives students the opportunity to learn about the history, cultures, science, language, art and  architecture of ancient Egypt. This is a branch of archaeology that mainly focuses on Europe. 

Where It’s Offered: Brown University

Degree: Ph. D

After College:Egyptologist, historian, specialized archaeologist

Bakery Science

Bakery Science is the study of science and technology behind baking. They will look into how specific techniques have an effect on the texture, size, flavor, and its attributes. This will help them know how to improve these treats to make sure they are safe, nutrition and processing are being improved.

Where It’s Offered: Kansas State University

Degree:At least a bachelor’s 

After College: Restaurants, caterers, hotels, clubs, food manufacturers, testing laboratories, and large and small bakeries

Fermentation Sciences

There are different types of aspects of fermentation that the students learn to focus on, from viticulture and chemistry to entrepreneurship and marketing. They learn about the process that goes into making fermented food. They will study wine and brewing, with an understanding of social and cultural implications of food and drinks.

Where It’s Offered: Appalachian State University

Degree:Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Sciences

After College:Vineyards, wineries, breweries, distilleries, and biotechnology businesses

Popular Culture

When going into Popular Culture, you will learn about values, ideas, belief systems, and expression. They learn about the variety of perspectives the icons and ideas they encounter every day, to think critically about the images and assertions of the mass media and commercial culture.

Where It’s Offered: Bowling Green State University

Degree: A minimum of a high school degree, good GPA, and good ACT or SAT score

After College:Advertising, public relations, journalism, mass media (management, performance, production and marketing), teaching, library and museum work

Ethical Hacking

Ethical hacking focuses on hacking a variety of computer programs in an ethical manner. They will be helping secure programs and websites.

Where It’s Offered: Dakota State University

Degree: Bachelor’s degree in information technology

After College: Information security analyst

So if you’re not into being a doctor or a lawyer, don’t worry.  These unique college majors could be just what you were looking for! Happy major exploring!