Liberal Arts at Georgetown University

If you plan to study liberal arts, take a look at what Georgetown University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and approximately 19,371 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Liberal Arts section at the bottom of this page.

Georgetown Liberal Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies
• Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies

Online Classes Are Available at Georgetown

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Georgetown does offer online education options in liberal studies for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Georgetown Liberal Arts Rankings

The liberal studies major at Georgetown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Liberal Arts. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in liberal studies, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Liberal Studies Student Demographics at Georgetown

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the liberal studies majors at Georgetown University.

Georgetown Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 59% of liberal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 41% went to women. The typical liberal studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at Georgetown since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its liberal studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor's in liberal studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	6
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Georgetown Liberal Arts Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of liberal studies master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgetown University with a master's in liberal studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Humanities

Careers That Liberal Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in liberal studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for DC, the home state for Georgetown University.

Occupation	Jobs in DC	Average Salary in DC

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lucas Cantor under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.