RELEASED: December 25, 2008

DANVILLE, KY—Centre College offers real benefits when it comes to majors. In fact, the choices are virtually unlimited, providing students with the versatility needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving work environment.

In addition to 27 traditional major programs, Centre offers a self-designed major option that allows students to customize their education to reflect individual interests. Self-designed majors are one more way that Centre's personal education sets students up for extraordinary success.

Majors that students have recently designed include (click on the links for in-depth stories about students who have designed these majors) modern languages, physics and metaphysics, diversity studies, public policy, education and the culture of learning, Japanese studies, communication and culture, European studies, criminology, environmental studies and urban development studies.

For more information about majors at Centre or other academic programs, contact the Admission Office at 1-800-423-6236 or e-mail: admission@centre.edu.

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Founded in 1819, Centre College is ranked among the U.S. News top 50 national liberal arts colleges. Consumers Digest ranks Centre No. 1 in educational value among all U.S. liberal arts colleges. Centre alumni, known for their nation-leading loyalty in annual financial support, include two U.S. vice presidents and two Supreme Court justices. For more, visit http://www.centre.edu/web/elevatorspeech/

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