Types of jobs for liberal arts majors

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Neighbors kid got into Nasa straight out of college. Physics & Math are also liberal arts.

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You can say CS is also part of liberal arts these days.

What they really mean is humanity majors.

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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.

On the flip side my DC was an Econ major at a top state flagship. So a liberal arts major but not at a SLAC.

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My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

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I think many people think liberal arts means humanities but it very much includes math and the sciences

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Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

Law degree is not a humanity.
It's a professional degree.

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Anonymous wrote:I think many people think liberal arts means humanities but it very much includes math and the sciences

As well as the social sciences. I majored in biology and developmental psychology (both liberal arts) and went on to a PsyD and am a clinical psychologist.

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How hard is it to get in a top law school right after graduating from a SLAC?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

Law degree is not a humanity.
It's a professional degree.

History and Econ major at a highly ranked school.

Traded livestock and meat futures in Chicago as my first job out of college for three years. Used some statistics and used lots of algebra in trading, often at light speed. The history major though was the best for trading. I assimilated information quickly and had a sense of when big trouble was looming.

Saved every penny and went to a very good law school. I missed trading but thought it too risky going forward.

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Smithsonian curator.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

Law degree is not a humanity.
It's a professional degree.

History and Econ major at a highly ranked school.

Traded livestock and meat futures in Chicago as my first job out of college for three years. Used some statistics and used lots of algebra in trading, often at light speed. The history major though was the best for trading. I assimilated information quickly and had a sense of when big trouble was looming.

Saved every penny and went to a very good law school. I missed trading but thought it too risky going forward.

Econ at highly ranked schcool is great.
Those firms mainly hire from highly ranked Econ, Business, and STEM majors.
Some history majors get lucky.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

My husband was a history major and his now running a major tech company (after getting an MBA) making about the same as above.

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Anonymous wrote:You can say CS is also part of liberal arts these days.

What they really mean is humanity majors.

UVA has CS in college of of Arts and Sciences for a reason. Also another another CS in college of Engineering and Applied sciences.

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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.

NO. Mongo only major in STEM. Philosophy make Mongo feel sad.

Much better to spend $80k a year for a degree where you will be replaced with AI in ten years.

#1 job most at risk from AI: coder/software engineer.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-major-highest-lowest-incomes/

History is not too bad compared to other huminites, but still way below Econ, Business, STEM