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Liberal Arts General Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Liberal Arts General Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366.

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.

SIUC Liberal Arts General Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts

SIUC Liberal Arts General Studies Rankings

The liberal arts major at SIUC 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 SIUC

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

SIUC Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Program

60% Women
36% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 40% of liberal arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% 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 SIUC since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

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About 62% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at SIUC 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in liberal arts.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 10
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 28
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Concentrations Within Liberal Arts General Studies

If you plan to be a liberal arts major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Liberal Arts 58

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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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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