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. In 2021, 88 liberal arts majors received their bachelor's degree from NIU.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the liberal arts progam at NIU 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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools	592
Most Popular Liberal Arts General Studies Schools	947

Earnings of NIU Liberal Arts Graduates

The median salary of liberal arts students who receive their bachelor's degree at NIU is $34,748. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 8% higher than the national average of $32,253 for all liberal arts bachelor's degree recipients.

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

Of the 88 liberal arts students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from NIU, about 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical liberal arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at NIU since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

About 57% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	50
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

NIU 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 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.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.