Philosophy at SUNY Cortland

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 SUNY Cortland stacks up to those at other schools.

SUNY Cortland is located in Cortland, New York and approximately 6,832 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from SUNY Cortland.

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

SUNY Cortland Philosophy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy

SUNY Cortland Philosophy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the philosophy progam at SUNY Cortland compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The philosophy major at SUNY Cortland 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Philosophy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	371

Philosophy Student Demographics at SUNY Cortland

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the philosophy majors at SUNY Cortland.

SUNY Cortland Philosophy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of philosophy bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical philosophy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% women. So female students are more repesented at SUNY Cortland since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 33% 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 SUNY Cortland with a bachelor's in philosophy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

SUNY Cortland also has a doctoral program available in philosophy. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Cortland.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Mathematical Science Professors	4,700	$105,070
Philosophy and Religion Professors	3,530	$80,480
Natural Sciences Managers	1,360	$148,460

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 Publicganda under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.