Liberal Arts at Southern Virginia University

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

SVU is located in Buena Vista, Virginia and has a total student population of 1,140.

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.

SVU Liberal Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies

SVU Liberal Arts Rankings

The liberal studies major at SVU 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 SVU

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

SVU Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of liberal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% 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 SVU since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in liberal studies at SVU 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 Virginia University with a bachelor's in liberal studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

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 VA, the home state for Southern Virginia University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA

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 Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.