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Liberal Arts General Studies at Northern Illinois University

Liberal Arts General Studies at Northern Illinois University

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

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769.

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.

NIU Liberal Arts General Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts

NIU Liberal Arts General Studies Rankings

The liberal arts major at NIU 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.

Liberal Arts Student Demographics at NIU

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

NIU Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Program

49% Women
39% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 51% of liberal arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 49% went to women. The typical liberal arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at NIU since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at NIU 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 Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in liberal arts.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 16
Hispanic or Latino 12
White 58
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

Concentrations Within Liberal Arts General Studies

The following liberal arts concentations are available at Northern Illinois University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Northern Illinois University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Liberal Arts 88

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 IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Professors 3,040 $66,970

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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