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Literature at Stony Brook University

Literature at Stony Brook University

If you plan to study literature, take a look at what Stony Brook University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SUNY Stony Brook is located in Stony Brook, New York and has a total student population of 26,782.

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

SUNY Stony Brook Literature Degrees Available

SUNY Stony Brook Literature Rankings

Concentrations Within Literature

If you plan to be a literature 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 Stony Brook University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Children’s & Adolescent Literature 5

Careers That Literature Grads May Go Into

A degree in literature can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Stony Brook University.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Editors 19,140 $83,070
English Language and Literature Professors 7,700 $92,170
Writers and Authors 7,410 $86,380

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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