Liberal Arts at Yale 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 Yale University stacks up to those at other schools.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and has a total student population of 12,060.

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.

Yale Liberal Arts Degrees Available

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

Yale Liberal Arts Rankings

The liberal studies major at Yale 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.

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in liberal studies, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Liberal Studies Student Demographics at Yale

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

Yale Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of liberal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% 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 Yale since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Yale Liberal Arts Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of liberal studies master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

Of the students who received a liberal studies master's degree from Yale, 67% 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 Yale University with a master's in liberal studies.

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

Related Majors

• Humanities

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 CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT

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 Jdbrandt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.