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Blog Post
November 20, 2025

How Institutions Can Offer Students a Liberal Arts and Sciences Education

Our research shows that pursuing liberal educational experiences pays off. On average, students with greater exposure to liberal arts features achieve better academic outcomes without experiencing negative labor market returns. Since our findings are based on students enrolled in large public institutions, in this post we provide more targeted guidance on how to allocate their limited resources. To do so, we conducted additional analyses to examine whether the benefits of a liberal arts education vary across different groups of students.
Past Event
July 18, 2025

College and Beyond II

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Sponsored Research

With support from the Mellon Foundation and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Research on the Liberal Arts funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF), Ithaka S+R has undertaken a research project to understand the relationship between students’ exposure to a liberal education and their subsequent economic returns. On Friday, July 18, Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta and Daniel Rossman will provide an update on their research at the College and Beyond II convening at the American Council of…