One program system, four ways to read it
The College of ACES organizes its 30 undergraduate majors by department. Prospective students explore by interest. These interactive views make that gap visible and show how the Program Explorer reframed discovery around students instead of the org chart.
How interests converge on programs
Every line is an interest path into a major. Hover or tap an interest to see which majors it reaches; hover a major to see the interests that lead there. Majors are colored by the department that owns them. Watch how a single interest cuts straight across departments.
The catalog, sortable and filterable
The browse-and-rank view: one row per major. Sort by department, interest reach, or name; filter to a single department or interest. This is the structured counterpart to the visual map, useful when someone already knows what facet they care about.
| Major ▲ | Department ↕ | Interest paths ↕ | Interest areas |
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Where the org chart meets student interest
Rows are the 9 academic homes; columns are the 10 interest areas. Each cell counts how many of that department’s majors carry that interest. The spread across each row is the point: no department maps to one interest, and no interest belongs to one department.
Why a flat list favors the biggest department
Departments are wildly uneven in size. One holds a third of all majors; others hold just one. Any list-based experience inherits that imbalance: the large department floods the page while the small ones vanish into a single line. This is the problem interest-first discovery was built to fix.