Liberal Arts at SUNY Empire State College

What traits are you looking for in a liberal studies school? To help you decide if SUNY Empire State College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's liberal studies program.

SUNY Empire is located in Saratoga Springs, New York and has a total student population of 10,724.

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.

SUNY Empire Liberal Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies
• Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies

Online Classes Are Available at SUNY Empire

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? SUNY Empire offers distance education options for liberal studies at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SUNY Empire Liberal Arts Rankings

The liberal studies major at SUNY Empire 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 SUNY Empire

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the liberal studies majors at SUNY Empire State College.

SUNY Empire Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of liberal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% 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 SUNY Empire since its program graduates 22% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from SUNY Empire State College with a bachelor's in liberal studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

SUNY Empire Liberal Arts Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 19% of liberal studies master's degrees went to men and 81% went to women.

Of the students who received a liberal studies master's degree from SUNY Empire, 81% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from SUNY Empire State College with a master's in liberal studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Empire State College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Professors	6,440	$112,000

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 DanielPenfield under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.