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Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

What traits are you looking for in a liberal studies school? To help you decide if Southern Illinois University Carbondale is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's liberal studies program.

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and approximately 11,366 students attend the school each year.

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

SIUC Liberal Arts Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SIUC offers distance education options for liberal studies at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

SIUC Liberal Arts Rankings

The liberal studies major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Liberal Arts. 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 Studies Student Demographics at SIUC

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

SIUC Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program

60% Women
36% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 40% of liberal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical liberal studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% men. So male students are more repesented at SIUC since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

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About 62% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in liberal studies 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 studies.

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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

Careers That Liberal Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in liberal studies 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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