Philosophy at Sonoma State University

Every philosophy school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the philosophy program at Sonoma State University stacks up to those at other schools.

SSU is located in Rohnert Park, California and has a total student population of 8,018.

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

SSU Philosophy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy

SSU Philosophy Rankings

The philosophy major at SSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Philosophy. 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.

Philosophy Student Demographics at SSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the philosophy majors at Sonoma State University.

SSU Philosophy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 48% of philosophy bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical philosophy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at SSU since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its philosophy bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

Careers That Philosophy Grads May Go Into

A degree in philosophy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for Sonoma State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	2,220	$114,370

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 Stepheng3 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.