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Career Clusters

Explore Careers, Plan Your Future

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Whether you know where you're headed or want to explore what's out there, check out following career cluster pages. They provide information for a variety of job and industry areas. University of Arizona alumni from all majors have built successful careers in each of these areas.

Instead of asking, "What can I do with a major in ___?," think about what big questions, issues, work environments, and job duties excite you, and start exploring from there. These pages can help.

Interested in multiple career clusters? No problem. Explore them all. You never know where your interests may take you!

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Arts & Media

Drafting and crafting, showing and telling, sharing and questioning.

This cluster boasts a wide array of career options and offers opportunities to use written and verbal communication, creative expression, and diverse production and performance platforms to convey meaning and information.

Explore Arts & Media

Commerce & Management

Goods, services, distribution, and innovation.

Careers in Commerce & Management offer a broad-based set of opportunities that include jobs that direct business operations, functions, and finance and can span disciplines and industries.

Explore Commerce
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Data & Technology

Information and science meet solution and invention.

Data & Technology professionals are in huge demand, and serve increasingly vital functions within a vast variety of industries—not just internet and technology, 

Explore Technology
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Education & Social Services

Teaching, Supporting, and Serving Children, Families & Communities

Careers in this cluster attract those who enjoy helping people improve their lives through advice, advocacy and support.  Jobs in this cluster are available in all the major sectors: not-for-profit, government and private. 

Explore Education
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Engineering & Infrastructure

Tangible and tactical design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures.

Disciplines in this cluster utilize science and technology in the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures. Successful professionals in this cluster are able to analyze problems in order to solve and innovate around them.

Explore Engineering
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Environment & Resources

Sustaining Earth and leveraging its elements.

This cluster represents careers in earth and physical sciences, sustainability, energy, and natural resources. From sustainable agriculture to green business to conservation and nature jobs, professionals working in this career cluster contribute creative solutions to environmental problems. 

Explore Environment
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Global Impact & Public Service

Working for the greater good.

These career represent an opportunity to serve others and advance causes. Whether as an activist, advocate, analyst, or administrator, or another pivotal profession, these careers encompass a multilayered range of public interests.

Explore Global Impact
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Health & Biosciences

Prevention, intervention, curing, and caring.

Many come to this cluster with interest in biology, chemistry, or medicine. Medical professionals like doctors, nurses, dietitians, physical and occupational therapists, and some researchers require specific advanced degrees, but this cluster isn’t just for PhDs and MDs.

Explore Health
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Research & Academia

Expert Knowledge Acquisition, Dissemination & Exploration

Bridging the realms of higher education and research in general, this cluster examines professional prospects at colleges and universities, in addition to other research-engaged organizations.

Explore Research
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Law & Justice

Driving, Testing, Examining and Enforcing Society's Rules

Spanning numerous settings and specializations, this cluster boasts broad opportunities to serve the public interest, ensure fundamental rights, and maintain social order. 

Explore Law & Justice
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