The College of Liberal Arts is home to nine departments in the humanities and social sciences, four interdisciplinary centers, and eight centers located within departments. Some 5,114 students, or 19 percent of the University's total enrollment, are currently majoring in Liberal Arts’ undergraduate and graduate programs, making the College the University's largest in terms of majors. The College is the University’s largest also in the number of full-time equivalent faculty – about 28 percent of Texas State's total faculty – who generate 30 percent of the University’s semester credit hours.

Because of their broad-based education, Liberal Arts graduates are attractive to employers in business, the arts, education, the medical and legal professions, and social service occupations. Students interested in medicine, dentistry, law, and other professional fields often major in Liberal Arts as an excellent foundation for entrance into professional schools.

Liberal Arts faculty have won prestigious national awards for teaching and achievement. The faculty, who have produced more than 1,500 publications, include:

• Authors and poets who have won more than a dozen national awards, including the National Book Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize
• 8 Fulbright Scholars
• 8 Piper Professors
• 14 winners of the National Council for Geographic Education's Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award
• 4 National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Fellows
• 53 faculty who serve as editors or editorial board members of 84 scholarly journals.
• Faculty who hold 85 external grants and contracts totaling $7.1 million

For a complete listing of faculty honors, awards, publications, and scholarly and professional activity, please see the Faculty Bibliography.

Undergraduate students can major in any one of 11 baccalaureate degree programs and pursue a wide range of minors in the College's 12 departments and centers. The College offers a wide range of graduate programs leading to the Master's degree and one program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Geography. An additional Ph.D. program is proposed in Public Administration.

Undergraduate and graduate Liberal Arts majors can take advantage of research opportunities with faculty in any of the College's departments. They can also gain educational and research experience in the College's specialized centers, and professional on-the-job training through internships.

Through its individual departments and centers, the College offers study-abroad programs in Belize, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland. Many additional study-abroad opportunities are available through the University's Correspondence and Extension Studies Study Abroad Program. Liberal Arts majors are encouraged to study abroad during their college careers and can apply for financial aid through the Office of Correspondence and Extension Studies.