Liberal Arts Teaches The Business Skills AI Can't Replace

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Anonymous wrote:On East Coast, Babson does extremely well and Holy Cross does place well. Never many corporate exexcs from Bowdoin. Williams grads on Wall Street not many from Amherst.

Completely wrong. Bowdoin, Williams, And Amherst do a lot better than Holy cross and babson is a joke for if you actually want a successful Wall Street career.

This analysis of Wall Street and IB feeder schools placed Babson ahead of Bowdoin:

Top Feeders to Wall Street https://share.google/sCrMbLVFQyocbY0Id

Nonetheless, Bowdoin did do well in having made the list.

Isn’t babson a business school? I’m not sure these stats mean anything.

I believe the analysis is sufficient to refute a poster's claim that Babson "is a joke if you actually want a successful Wall Street career." Nonetheless, I would say that Bowdoin would be better compared to other NESCAC LACs, such as Amherst, Williams, Middlebury and Hamilton, which also appear in the analysis.

That would be just foolish. Williams has long been the number one SLAC feeder to Wall Street and Amherst was second. In recent years the "Middlebury Mafia" has passed Amherst but all three are superior to Bowdoin in IB. Hamilton is as good or better as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts = humanities, social sciences, etc. The Ivys at their core ARE liberal arts institutions that teach courses in these areas..including business, tech (although these are more Ivy pluses).

Yes. My kid is in liberal arts at an Ivy and has picked up electives in AI. The university got big research grant.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts = humanities, social sciences, etc. The Ivys at their core ARE liberal arts institutions that teach courses in these areas..including business, tech (although these are more Ivy pluses).

If yo listen to the blithering boosters here on DCUM you would think that there is nothing except math and engineering at the Ivies.

Well then in the next breath they criticize Yale, Dartmouth and Brown for being too liberal arts focused. Ha. These people are clueless. Ivies are liberal arts colleges. Yes, all Ivy League universities offer strong liberal arts programs and education, focusing on broad intellectual development across humanities, sciences, and arts.

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the CEO metric is always weird to me. these are men (mostly) who went to college 40 years ago. it doesnt say a lot about where these colleges are placing kids now. although I like HC. this isn't really a metric I'd use to rank a college's current standing.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts = humanities, social sciences, etc. The Ivys at their core ARE liberal arts institutions that teach courses in these areas..including business, tech (although these are more Ivy pluses).

If yo listen to the blithering boosters here on DCUM you would think that there is nothing except math and engineering at the Ivies.

Well then in the next breath they criticize Yale, Dartmouth and Brown for being too liberal arts focused. Ha. These people are clueless. Ivies are liberal arts colleges. Yes, all Ivy League universities offer strong liberal arts programs and education, focusing on broad intellectual development across humanities, sciences, and arts.

Exactly. Not sure why the OP equated Ivies as the non-liberal arts when institutions like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown are more liberal arts than tech focused. Sure, they have great tech programs but humanities/social sciences (history, government, public policy, psychology, economics) have traditionally been where they have been the strongest.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts = humanities, social sciences, etc. The Ivys at their core ARE liberal arts institutions that teach courses in these areas..including business, tech (although these are more Ivy pluses).

If yo listen to the blithering boosters here on DCUM you would think that there is nothing except math and engineering at the Ivies.

Well then in the next breath they criticize Yale, Dartmouth and Brown for being too liberal arts focused. Ha. These people are clueless. Ivies are liberal arts colleges. Yes, all Ivy League universities offer strong liberal arts programs and education, focusing on broad intellectual development across humanities, sciences, and arts.

Pretty obvious many of these detractors did not go to any of the Ivies.

~as someone who got degrees from two

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymolinsky/2026/01/06/liberal-arts-teaches-the-business-skills-ai-cant-replace/

Our next generation of business leaders will come from liberal arts colleges.
This year early results are disappointing. Top kids didn't get into ivy and ivy plus, many deferred. Many will apply RD and one of the 13s will welcome them there. Lucky ones may get accepted into SWAP or Bowdoin or Wellesley. In the long run, it's these kids who will lead the world.

AI will replace entry level jobs. Unless Wellesley offers a plumbing major their new grads will suffer the same fate as those from all the other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymolinsky/2026/01/06/liberal-arts-teaches-the-business-skills-ai-cant-replace/

Our next generation of business leaders will come from liberal arts colleges.
This year early results are disappointing. Top kids didn't get into ivy and ivy plus, many deferred. Many will apply RD and one of the 13s will welcome them there. Lucky ones may get accepted into SWAP or Bowdoin or Wellesley. In the long run, it's these kids who will lead the world.

That happens every year.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy Cross is a powerhouse in Corporate America. WalletHub 2026 college rankings has Bowdoin 5, Wellesley 7, and HC 8 with best career outcomes. Current CEOs of JetBlue, UHaul former CEOs of Ecolab, Danaher, UnderArmour all Holy Cross. HC grads are on several Boards of Directors at Target, Home Depot, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Burlington Coat, CVS, Dell, Boston Scientific, HP. Doubt Wellesley or Bowdoin or any other NESCAC can match that success.

Are you the person who always posts about Holy Cross in corporate America?

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Anonymous wrote:Holy Cross is a powerhouse in Corporate America. WalletHub 2026 college rankings has Bowdoin 5, Wellesley 7, and HC 8 with best career outcomes. Current CEOs of JetBlue, UHaul former CEOs of Ecolab, Danaher, UnderArmour all Holy Cross. HC grads are on several Boards of Directors at Target, Home Depot, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Burlington Coat, CVS, Dell, Boston Scientific, HP. Doubt Wellesley or Bowdoin or any other NESCAC can match that success.

I get that you want to boost HC but it's hardly better than the schools mentioned.

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Williams and to a lesser extent Colgate place well on Wall Street. HC is prevalent on corporate boards and C suite jobs. Amherst and Wesleyan grads seem to focus on academic careers. One common thread about Williams, Colgate and Holy Cross is they graduate each year a lot of varsity athletes such as lacrosse, crew, football that are well respected in business.

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Agree schools like Grinnell, Oberlin, Vassar, Bates are very weak in business community. Not shocking.

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Extrapolate out to national universities, Princeton, Duke, Dartmouth and Stanford outperform Brown, Columbia, and Hopkins.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy Cross is a powerhouse in Corporate America. WalletHub 2026 college rankings has Bowdoin 5, Wellesley 7, and HC 8 with best career outcomes. Current CEOs of JetBlue, UHaul former CEOs of Ecolab, Danaher, UnderArmour all Holy Cross. HC grads are on several Boards of Directors at Target, Home Depot, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Burlington Coat, CVS, Dell, Boston Scientific, HP. Doubt Wellesley or Bowdoin or any other NESCAC can match that success.

You don’t think Wellesley has better alum than the CEO of a budget airline?

The unrelenting HC boosting that happens on this forum has caused me to dissuade my own child from applying there this year.

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Campus vibes can tell if the school has a good business pipeline similar to Bucknell’s.