Liberal Arts
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Early Career Income
$58,993
Lifetime Income
$3.03M
Unemployment rate
4.5%
Female share
61.7%
Occupation concentration
31.8%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
20.4%
% who double-major
5.4%
BA Graduates from 2024
36,777
+1.3% vs 2023
How Liberal Arts compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
19th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 19% of majors
10th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 10% of majors
4th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 4% of majors
Top occupations
- Elementary and Middle School Teachers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Liberal Arts.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
- General Studies
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Other
- Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, General
- Digital Humanities
- Textual Studies
- Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology