While your major consists of your primary bachelor’s degree courses of study, minors are secondary areas of study that can help you:

• Receive supplemental knowledge needed for a specific career
• Take classes to explore a personal interest
• Use general electives toward a specific goal

The minors at Liberty University provide an opportunity for you to personalize your degree to include additional areas of study without pursuing an entirely different bachelor’s degree. Customizing your degree with a minor can expand your experience, knowledge, and training beyond your current major.

If you are unsure exactly what to study with your general electives, minors can give you helpful guidance and a practical list of options. Make the most of your college investment with a minor!

Minors do not have to be related to your online bachelor’s degree area of study. You can add minors in any area of study to your online degree. Diverse minors like business or writing are often considered beneficial for any career, but adding different areas of interest can help make you well-rounded in whatever field you choose.

Our mission is Training Champions for Christ, so it might not be a bad idea to take advantage of one of Liberty’s minors that includes Christian content. You could choose biblical studies, church ministry, evangelism, or other religions studies.

Minors can only be added to bachelor’s degrees and may be used to fill in general electives in your degree plan. You can pursue up to 5 minors. Keep in mind that adding more than one minor may add to the overall length of your degree plan beyond the normal 120-credit-hour format. You can speak with an academic advisor about adding a minor once you have been accepted to an online bachelor’s degree.

A minor is a valuable asset that can be added to any bachelor’s degree, but there are no online minor degrees. This means you are not able to pursue a minor on its own. Every minor must be paired with a bachelor’s program.

When choosing a minor, you may be wondering how many additional credits will be added to your overall degree. Our minors range from 15 to 18 credits. That is about 1 semester of full-time attendance, depending on prerequisite requirements.

If you are considering adding multiple minors, keep in mind that this number will only increase as you add minors. For example, students pursuing 2 minors will be completing at least 30 credits toward their minors alone. This is in addition to the courses required in the bachelor’s program.

Many master’s students wonder if minors are available to them. However, a minor can only be added to a bachelor’s degree. Master’s programs have very specific courses that must be completed, and typically have little to no opportunity for electives. However, bachelor’s degrees are much more flexible and often have many available elective hours.