Liberal Arts General Studies at Indiana University - Bloomington

If you are interested in studying liberal arts general studies, you may want to check out the program at Indiana University - Bloomington. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

IU Bloomington is located in Bloomington, Indiana and approximately 43,064 students attend the school each year. Of the 7,959 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University - Bloomington in 2021, 225 of them were liberal arts general studies majors.

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

IU Bloomington Liberal Arts General Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts

IU Bloomington Liberal Arts General Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the liberal arts progam at IU Bloomington compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The liberal arts major at IU Bloomington is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Liberal Arts General Studies. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	391

Earnings of IU Bloomington Liberal Arts Graduates

The median salary of liberal arts students who receive their bachelor's degree at IU Bloomington is $29,988. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,253 for all liberal arts students.

Liberal Arts Student Demographics at IU Bloomington

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the liberal arts majors at Indiana University - Bloomington.

IU Bloomington Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 225 liberal arts majors earned their bachelor's degree from IU Bloomington. Of these graduates, 57% were men and 43% were women. The typical liberal arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at IU Bloomington since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at IU Bloomington are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	22
White	142
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

IU Bloomington also has a doctoral program available in liberal arts. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That Liberal Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in liberal arts can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Indiana University - Bloomington.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.