Outline of academic disciplines


An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge, taught and researched as part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research.
Disciplines vary between well-established ones that exist in almost all universities and have well-defined rosters of journals and conferences, and nascent ones supported by only a few universities and publications. A discipline may have branches, and these are often called sub-disciplines.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines. In each case an entry at the highest level of the hierarchy is a group of broadly similar disciplines; an entry at the next highest level is a discipline having some degree of autonomy and being the basic identity felt by its scholars; and lower levels of the hierarchy are sub-disciplines not normally having any role in the structure of the university's governance.

Humanities

Arts">The arts">Arts

[Performing arts]

[Anthropology]

[Economics]

[Biology]

Computer Science

Also a branch of electrical engineering
Pure mathematics
Applied mathematics

[Business]

Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Educational Technology
Electrical Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Systems science