Top Ranked Programs
Sarah Lawrence College's program mix reflects its identity as a liberal arts college with a distinctive focus on individualized education and creative fields. The institution's largest programs span the humanities, social sciences, and performing arts — anchoring a portfolio designed around close faculty-student mentorship rather than large-scale professional training. Across 1 programs, 0 meet Azimuth's ranking threshold, with strength concentrated in fields where liberal arts pedagogy translates directly to labor-market outcomes. General Studies is the largest program with 318 graduates, earning median 4-year earnings of $48,225. The institution's highest-earning program, General Studies, delivers median earnings of $48,225 four years after enrollment with 318 graduates. This earnings spread — from $48,225 to $48,225 — reflects the diversity of career pathways that liberal arts graduates pursue, ranging from creative and media-adjacent fields to professional and technical specializations. The college's strength lies not in concentrating students into a single high-earning major, but in supporting students across multiple fields to achieve competitive outcomes relative to comparable programs at similar institutions. Several of Sarah Lawrence College's programs represent pathways where four-year earnings reflect direct labor-market entry — particularly in business, communications, and applied social sciences — while others, including psychology and humanities fields, are grad-school-dependent pathways where four-year earnings undercount lifetime trajectory because a meaningful share of graduates continue to graduate or professional school. The [supply and demand for college graduates](/analysis/supply-demand-map-college-degrees/) provides context for how the institution's program families align with national labor-market demand and wage trends across creative, social-science, and professional fields.