THE COLLEGE AT A GLANCE STUDENTS BY THE NUMBERS With more than 5,600 undergraduates and nearly 850 graduate students, the College of the Liberal Arts is one of the largest colleges at Penn State. Our 24 departments offer 50 undergraduate majors, and many students choose multiple majors in liberal arts and in other disciplines such as business, engineering, communications, or information sciences and technology.

Undergraduate Majors: Graduate Majors:

5% AREA AND 10% AREA AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

7% LANGUAGES 5,600+ 8% LANGUAGES 840+ UNDERGRADUATES GRADUATES 13% HUMANITIES 28% HUMANITIES

76% SOCIAL SCIENCES 54% SOCIAL SCIENCES LEADERS IN DIVERSITY The College of the Liberal Arts attracts the most diverse student body at Penn State University Park. Forty percent of enrolled students (undergraduate and graduate) identified as a member of a minority group (vs. thirty-six percent campus wide).

White International Hispanic or Latinx Black or African American Asian Other

60% 16% 9% 6% 5% 4% COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK 64% 16% 7% 4% 3%6% ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES Every year, alumni provide financial 632 – GLOBAL EXPERIENCES support to hundreds of students participating in enhanced learning $615,185 488 – STUDENT-REPORTED opportunities offered through the INTERNSHIPS college’s Career Enrichment Awarded to 557 applicants to support enrichment in 2018–19 Network donors or provide career 266 – STUDENT/ALUMNI MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS advice to students through our Alumni Mentor Program.” FINANCIAL NEED Nearly two-thirds of our undergraduate students receive financial aid through a combination of alumni-supported and private scholarships, state and federal grants, and student loans. MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF AVERAGE STUDENT LOAN DEBT PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS STUDENTS WHO APPLIED FOR AID UPON GRADUATION RECEIVING UNIVERSITY SUPPORT $115,904 $39,588 23% $97,081 $38,231 18%

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(2017–18) CROSS-DISCIPLINARY EXCELLENCE The College of the Liberal Arts is home to 20 cross-disciplinary centers that promote scholarly collaboration, outreach, and student engagement. The centers are equipped with the resources to bring their research and scholarship into the public domain, helping to inform practitioners and policy makers well beyond Penn State.

MCCOURTNEY CHILD STUDY ROCK ETHICS HUMANITIES CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE FOR CENTER INSTITUTE INSTITUTE RESEARCH CENTER

DEMOCRACY Courts and Human Development Philosophy Sentencing Corrections and Communication Arts and Family Studies Re-entry and Sciences Engineering Political Science

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Public Policy CRIMINAL DEMOCRACY CHILD HEALTH ETHICS HUMANITIES JUSTICE Substance Abuse and Treatment

Psychology Liberal Arts Global Languages, Public Policy Political Science Literatures, and Cultures Public Policy Policy and Evaluation NATIONAL LEADERSHIP National Research Council rankings place the College of the Liberal Arts among the nation’s leading institutions for scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.

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