Liberal Arts Teaches The Business Skills AI Can't Replace

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

The CEO of that so called budget airline is the first woman to lead a US airline company good for her!

[Anonymous]

I agree about the liberal arts and humanities. It's a good article.

But what is meant by this year's early results being disappointing? What results? Who are these "top kids?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The CEO of that so called budget airline is the first woman to lead a US airline company good for her!

It is a budget airline. Nothing so called about it. This is fine though because many people need to travel without breaking the bank! Nothing to be ashamed of.

[Anonymous]

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.

Nope