This study sought to gain implications for the direction of development of university liberal arts education by analyzing topics related to university liberal arts education covered in news articles and identifying changes in topics over time. For this purpose, LDA topic modeling analysis was conducted on 240 related news articles. As a result, the topics of the 2000s were pointing out the lack of liberal arts education in universities, diversifying liberal arts subjects, establishing a domestic completion system for liberal arts courses from overseas universities, and the topics of the 2010s were the role of liberal education in universities, universities’ efforts to redefine the role of liberal education, considering the introduction of practical subjects in university education, establishment of a liberal arts college in universities, the topic for the 2020s was exchange of liberal arts education between universities, and as a result of liberal arts education consulting at the Korea Institute for General Education, ESG management as liberal education. According to these research results, the need to consider the definition and role of university liberal arts education, the standards for liberal arts education consulting at the Korea Institute for Liberal Arts and Basic Education, and the reflection of newly required civic competencies was mentioned.