Liberal Arts

Career Prospects

A liberal arts degree is timeless and eternally useful. Students dont have to worry about trends and try to speculate about the "best" preparation for their next 30 years or more in the workplace. A liberal arts degree will provide them with the basic skills and knowledge they need to develop their career. Very few students know exactly where they are going or what they will be doing in 4 years or 10 years or 20 years-- but students can think about what interests them generally and acquire summer jobs and internship experiences which will help them make up their minds. Our office can assist with this process.

Graduates opt there skills:

About 1/3 of our graduates go directly to graduate, law, or medical school after graduation, but of those students who go directly to the workplace, 37% select a career in business and management. The career fields include finance and banking, consulting, publishing, advertising, and marketing & sales. Twenty-five percent go into government or law-related careers, 22% go into education (from preschool to higher education to teaching English as a second language abroad), 6% work in nonprofit settings, and 5% choose other options such as entrepreneurial ventures.

When it comes to selecting a major, our advice to students is:

1. Major in a subject interests you and where you enjoy the reading and learning.

2. Major in the area where you like the professors.

3. Major in the area where you receive good grades (more likely if you have followed 1 and 2 above).

4. If you know the general career path or graduate school path you plan to follow, select a related major.