If you pursue a degree in liberal arts, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Liberal Arts Schools in Louisiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 105 degrees in liberal arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of liberal arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for liberal arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Liberal Arts Schools in Louisiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the liberal studies degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in liberal arts needs to check out McNeese State University. Located in the city of Lake Charles, McNeese is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1477 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means McNeese is a great university overall.
There were roughly 15 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at McNeese in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in liberal arts has to take a look at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Located in the town of Natchitoches, NSU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 13th out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were about 26 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at NSU in the most recent data year.
Baton Rouge Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in liberal arts. Located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge, BRCC is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 21st out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were about 31 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at BRCC in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of liberal arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for liberal arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
