Types of jobs for liberal arts majors

[Anonymous]

What types of jobs do most liberal arts majors go for? It appears among the high paying ones listed are technical writer, graphics designer, etc... but are these really?

https://www.coursera.org/articles/liberal-arts-degree-jobs

Top ranked liberal arts colleges appear to be low volume and costing about 60k/year. With this kind of investment, what jobs do graduates expect to do?

[Anonymous]

I started out on a product management team at Microsoft.

[Anonymous]

I went to investment banking (along with a chunk of classmates)

[Anonymous]

Went to an internal management consulting role at top tier investment bank. They took 1/3 engineer, 1/3 finance & 1/3 liberal arts. We were ranked - I think liberal arts kids actually did best if you averaged all the rankings together for that role (lateral thinking, creativity, communication were more of a factor than tech/numbers overall (not for all assignments)).

[Anonymous]

My DC went into consulting.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean humanities or social sciences majors? Because my nephew is a CS major at a small liberal arts college and has a really good data science job lined up next year. Because math and science ARE among the liberal arts.

[Anonymous]

I knew a lot of liberal arts majors who went to work at NGOs and think tanks (myself included) doing entry level work until we figured out what we wanted to do. Of those, some stuck with NGOs and think tanks while others went back to school to get advanced degrees and are now school counselors, human resource professionals, journalists, marketing/fundraisers etc.

[Anonymous]

I’m one of 4 kids who all went to SLACs. Me, Lit major with French minor, lawyer. Brother, international relations major, long career as a Naval Officer. Sister, Econ/Japanese double major, worked a few years doing random nonprofit jobs, got an MBA and works for Google (maybe YouTube now?) doing something in marketing. Other sister was a biology major, did Peace Corps, taught for a while in private schools, got married to a classmate and is now a SAHM living her best life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean humanities or social sciences majors? Because my nephew is a CS major at a small liberal arts college and has a really good data science job lined up next year. Because math and science ARE among the liberal arts.

+1
My spouse was a sociology major. Those advanced stats classes are quite marketable.

Not all humanities majors are the same, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m one of 4 kids who all went to SLACs. Me, Lit major with French minor, lawyer. Brother, international relations major, long career as a Naval Officer. Sister, Econ/Japanese double major, worked a few years doing random nonprofit jobs, got an MBA and works for Google (maybe YouTube now?) doing something in marketing. Other sister was a biology major, did Peace Corps, taught for a while in private schools, got married to a classmate and is now a SAHM living her best life.

Oh and we all own homes in nice neighborhoods and are financially secure, no trust funds or parental money, and none of us has ever had to work at Starbucks contrary to what some on this board would have you believe.

[Anonymous]

Many who major in liberal arts go to grad school or to law school.

If studying liberal arts at an elite college, many work as a paralegal for 2 years at major US law firms.

[Anonymous]

I was a government major at a small liberal arts school and work as an executive in Hr. My dh is also a liberal arts grad and he’s a writer both in the business world and in his free time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I started out on a product management team at Microsoft.

what did you major in, and in what capacity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to investment banking (along with a chunk of classmates)

That was my experience. The school offered a couple of accounting and finance classes unrelated to any major and those where very popular classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean humanities or social sciences majors? Because my nephew is a CS major at a small liberal arts college and has a really good data science job lined up next year. Because math and science ARE among the liberal arts.

Yeah, people really don’t get that liberal arts = maths and sciences, as well as humanities and social sciences. A liberal arts college is the same as a “College of Arts and Sciences” at a large university, just without grad students (although some liberal arts colleges have them, too).