Liberal Arts General Studies at University of the Southwest

If you are interested in studying liberal arts general studies, you may want to check out the program at University of the Southwest. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USW is located in Hobbs, New Mexico and approximately 904 students attend the school each year.

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

USW Liberal Arts General Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts

USW Liberal Arts General Studies Rankings

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

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the liberal arts majors at University of the Southwest.

USW Liberal Arts General Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 42% of liberal arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% went to women. The typical liberal arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at USW since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% more racial-ethnic minorities in its liberal arts bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of the Southwest with a bachelor's in liberal arts.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Liberal Arts General Studies

If you plan to be a liberal arts 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 University of the Southwest. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Studies	1

Careers That Liberal Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in liberal arts can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NM, the home state for University of the Southwest.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM

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 Bildungsroman under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.