Online Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and Sciences
Build a bachelor's degree around your goals. KU's online liberal arts degree offers the flexibility to explore multiple areas of interest while preparing for a wide range of careers.
Why Earn an Online Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and Sciences?
KU's online Bachelor of General Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences offers a flexible path to earning a bachelor's degree while exploring multiple areas of interest. Designed for students seeking a broad, interdisciplinary education, the program allows you to build knowledge across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and other fields while pursuing your academic and professional goals.
Whether you are returning to college, building on previous coursework, or looking for a degree that allows greater flexibility and customization, the online liberal arts and sciences degree provides opportunities to shape your education around your interests and future plans.
The curriculum combines broad academic study with career preparation, helping students develop skills that employers consistently value, including communication, research, critical thinking, information literacy, and the ability to connect ideas across disciplines.
Build Your Degree Around Your Goals
KU's online Bachelor of General Studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences allows you to explore multiple academic disciplines while building a bachelor's degree that reflects your interests, experiences, and future goals. The program combines broad academic study with the flexibility to pursue coursework across several fields of knowledge.
Students complete coursework in areas including the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and arts and interdisciplinary studies. This interdisciplinary approach encourages students to connect ideas across disciplines while developing the critical thinking, research, communication, and problem-solving skills valued across industries.
In addition to broad academic study, students complete career preparation coursework and interdisciplinary research experiences that help translate their education into future opportunities.
Career Opportunities with a
Liberal Arts and Sciences Degree
An online liberal arts and sciences degree prepares graduates for careers across business, education, government, nonprofit organizations, technology, and other professional fields by combining broad knowledge with in-demand communication, analytical, and leadership skills.
Career Outlook
Lightcast data shows strong demand across occupations commonly associated with liberal arts and sciences graduates:
- 8.29 million jobs nationwide
- 850,132 annual openings
- $61,600 median annual earnings
- 6.3% projected growth from 2025 to 2035
In-Demand Career Skills
A liberal arts and sciences education prepares graduates with versatile skills that align with employer demand across a wide range of industries and occupations.
- Professional Communication
- Analytical Problem Solving
- Leadership & Team Management
- Project Management
- Process Improvement
- Public Speaking & Professional Presentations
Career Paths
Because the degree emphasizes broad knowledge and adaptable skills, graduates may pursue careers across business, education, government, nonprofit organizations, and other professional settings.
- Business & Operations Management
- Project Management
- Human Resources
- Marketing
- Higher Education
- Social & Community Services
- Information Technology Support
Areas of Study
Students complete coursework across multiple disciplines while building a broad liberal arts and sciences education.
- Humanities
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Arts, Languages, and Interdisciplinary Studies
- Career Preparation
- Research & Analysis
Why choose KU for your online liberal arts degree?
KU combines the flexibility of online learning with the credibility, academic breadth, and alumni network of one of the nation's leading public research universities.
One of the nation's leading public research universities
The University of Kansas is one of just 38 public universities in the Association of American Universities (AAU), an invitation-only organization of North America's leading research institutions. KU is also classified as a Carnegie R1 university, recognizing the highest level of research activity.
The same respected KU degree
Earn the same University of Kansas bachelor's degree as students studying on campus. You'll learn from KU faculty, complete the same curriculum, and graduate with a degree that reflects the same academic standards and reputation.
Learn through KU's largest college
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is KU's largest college, with more than 120 academic programs. Its breadth creates opportunities to connect ideas across disciplines while learning from faculty engaged in teaching, research, and creative scholarship.
Join a global alumni network
Become part of a community of more than 90,000 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumni living across all 50 states and 113 countries.
How flexible is online learning at KU?
KU’s online degree programs are designed with your busy schedule in mind and offer the flexibility to study wherever — and often whenever — is most convenient for you. Our online courses are taught by the same highly regarded faculty and expert instructors, and contain the same rigorous curriculum and instruction as our on-campus programs.
Program details
Costs
Admission
FAQ: online bachelor’s in liberal arts and sciences
This program has a rolling application deadline. We will work with new applicants up to a month before the start of an eight-week course. If that deadline can’t be met, the application will roll over to the next available start date.
This is typically a degree completion program with no set pace. On average, most students are in the program for two years or less.
Yes, this program is 100% remote.
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