Cool Careers

You know what teachers, musicians, doctors, and nurses do. And you can thrive with those degrees from Nazareth, where you benefit from strong mentoring, high-impact experiences, and opportunities to stand out as a changemaker — making the most of your life’s work for the collective good. 

But did you also know: Naz offers 60+ majors and 80+ minors — providing so many opportunities and combinations.

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98% of Naz graduates (Class of 2023) are employed or in graduate school within six months of graduating.

Rewarding careers that you might not know about

Occupational Therapy

  • Help people recover their independence after a stroke or brain injury through specially chosen therapeutic activities.
  • OTs are in demand. OT jobs are growing much faster than average.
  • Bonus: Nazareth’s combined occupational therapy program enables you to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in just 5 years — saving you time and money.
  • Occupational therapist median annual wage: $85,570 (May 2021, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Social Work

  • Are you curious, empathetic, and want to help people address their challenges? Consider social work.
  • Clinical social workers are the most common type of mental health provider.
  • Bonus: Nazareth’s fast-track social work option enables you to complete your Master of Social Work in just one additional year full-time (so you can get licensed by the state), or you can go part-time.
  • Scholarship: If you want to work as a school social worker in a high-need school, see if you are eligible for Nazareth’s AMPs Up MSW grant.
  • Social worker median annual wage: $50,390 (May 2021, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Ethical Data Science

  • Like computing and problem solving? Become a data analyst who uses tech to inform better decisions.
  • Be prepared for a career addressing the opportunities and the big challenges in data science today – like analyzing complex information, chatbot ethics, and the spread of disinformation.
  • Nazareth’s well-rounded ethical data science bachelor’s degree includes courses in human-centered computing, sociology, and philosophy, providing you a competitive advantage to get internships and jobs, compared to a traditional data science program.
  • Average base salary for data analysts: $65,014 as of 2023, according to PayScale.

Artificial intelligence

Speech-Language Pathology

  • Learn to help children and adults who have speech or language difficulties, so they can communicate effectively.
  • Start with a bachelor's degree in communication sciences and disorders, beginning coursework in your major during your first year. Graduates of this program have high acceptance rates into master's programs in speech pathology (including Nazareth's speech-language pathology master's degree) or audiology.
  • Even as an undergraduate, our on-campus speech, language, and hearing clinics give you closely supervised, hands-on clinical experiences usually found only at the graduate level.
  • Speech-language pathologist median annual wage: $79,060 (May 2021, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)