What do you do with a humanities degree from an ivy, if you are not going to grad school?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an Ivy humanities major and now a C-suite exec at a global publishing company. I worked my way up in the field and started at modest pay, but my comp started taking off about 10-15 years in. I now make 7 figures and didn’t have to go to grad school to get here. I love my work.

Great to hear this but not relay applicable to anyone graduating after 2025. AI is changing everything.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you do after earning a humanities degree from an Ivy League school? Simple…you either live off the income from your trust fund or become a very skilled barista at Starbucks before you break down and apply to law school.

Or you get a job in consulting or finance, which have plenty of Ivy humanities grads.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't lead to good jobs here either. Maybe they are a trust fund kid and and just want the experience or to work in a museum for fun? I would never pay for that degree. If you aren't going to law school or something similar, humanities degrees are useless.

This. I definitely had classmates who could work for fun but would never have to work to live.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an Ivy humanities major and now a C-suite exec at a global publishing company. I worked my way up in the field and started at modest pay, but my comp started taking off about 10-15 years in. I now make 7 figures and didn’t have to go to grad school to get here. I love my work.

Great to hear this but not relay applicable to anyone graduating after 2025. AI is changing everything.

AI is coming for STEM jobs too

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My sister graduated from an Ivy with a very obscure major. She's not an executive producer for a TV show.

[Anonymous]

The amount of replies on here talking about entering consulting or other lucrative career tracks with an art history Ivy degree are giving me hives.

First of all, almost none of us on this thread will be able to get our kids into an Ivy right now, unless seriously hooked (I say this an a parent at a private feeder that gets mentioned here) or rural low income. Wait another 5 years, spots will open up.

Secondly, the people who are already in consulting now who would be hiring your humanities grads are themselves deeply concerned about being replaced by AI. They won’t have time to hire more human overhead onto their team. The managers who migrate more of their budget and output to AI vs human employees will get to stay. That’s what pretty much all of the conferences and half of the strategic meetings I attend know talk about these days. Those entry level consulting jobs will be extinct by the time your DCs graduate if they are entering college now.

If you are filthy rich and your kids won’t have to work for a living, let them do whatever they want; spend it on at Ivy even. If they need to work for a living, best you can do is put them in robotics or chemical engineering (energy jobs), preferably at a state school so you can save at least $50k a year on tuition. Use that savings for a downpayment to buy them a commercial property near a city where AI data center buildout are getting approved so they can collect rent when they graduate. AI will replace a lot of jobs but can’t replace real estate and food, at least not for a while.

All of you who still care about the Ivy names are seriously delusional about what’s ahead. No one will care about the Yale name in 15 years; they care about the names of your AI agents. There will be drastically different markers for wealth, status and influence; the Ivies with all their 80-year-old tenure professors and old buildings made of stones that won’t have enough compute to run the most rudimentary AI data centers won’t be one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The amount of replies on here talking about entering consulting or other lucrative career tracks with an art history Ivy degree are giving me hives.

First of all, almost none of us on this thread will be able to get our kids into an Ivy right now, unless seriously hooked (I say this an a parent at a private feeder that gets mentioned here) or rural low income. Wait another 5 years, spots will open up.

Secondly, the people who are already in consulting now who would be hiring your humanities grads are themselves deeply concerned about being replaced by AI. They won’t have time to hire more human overhead onto their team. The managers who migrate more of their budget and output to AI vs human employees will get to stay. That’s what pretty much all of the conferences and half of the strategic meetings I attend know talk about these days. Those entry level consulting jobs will be extinct by the time your DCs graduate if they are entering college now.

If you are filthy rich and your kids won’t have to work for a living, let them do whatever they want; spend it on at Ivy even. If they need to work for a living, best you can do is put them in robotics or chemical engineering (energy jobs), preferably at a state school so you can save at least $50k a year on tuition. Use that savings for a downpayment to buy them a commercial property near a city where AI data center buildout are getting approved so they can collect rent when they graduate. AI will replace a lot of jobs but can’t replace real estate and food, at least not for a while.

All of you who still care about the Ivy names are seriously delusional about what’s ahead. No one will care about the Yale name in 15 years; they care about the names of your AI agents. There will be drastically different markers for wealth, status and influence; the Ivies with all their 80-year-old tenure professors and old buildings made of stones that won’t have enough compute to run the most rudimentary AI data centers won’t be one of them.

If the AIpocalypse is really coming (and it might be) no one can predict what jobs will be safe. Your guesses of robotics and chem engineering are no better than anyone else's. I know a robotics engineering grad who's currently unemployed. In the doomer scenario, why not yolo your way into a degree in medieval studies? Now is the time of monsters. You can always go into real estate later.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t sound like you know much about Ivy league degrees. Students have already signaled their worth to future employers by being admitted and being a candidate for their degree.

Students with Ivy humanities degrees are easily employed by consulting firms, Silicon Valley companies, the financial industry, media companies,and government.

Elite universities publish a post-graduation report summarizing where their students are employed or attending grad school each year. Typically 90 pct are employed within 6 months of graduation. You can take 5 minutes to google and read if you’re actually interested.

But your post seems to me more like you want to concern troll about majors such as “medieval studies.”

Lol!!!!😂

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Anonymous wrote:Humanities teaches you to think and question and review material.

I now run my own business, it has helped me every day in making decisions.

Yea, all those people with tech backgrounds who are CEOs.. they don't know how to make decisions and run a business. They must rely on humanities majors to do that. /s

Zactly lol

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Anonymous wrote:The beauty of an American college education used to be that it’s a liberal arts education, even if you’re doing STEM. You used to see a major firm’s CEO with an “obscure” college degree. However, things seem to be changing here, along with the college admissions process. I’ve always wondered if it’s at least partly influenced by the East Asian educated immigrants (those who got a Ph.D. here) over the past few decades?

Back in the day, the top tier of Capital
One executives included quite a few philosophy majors. Law firm partners, too.

By the way, OP, in case you don’t know about law school admissions here in the US, there is no undergraduate degree in law or pre-law before going to law school. Even the best law schools here accept tons of kids who majored in esoteric humanities subjects, as well as all the other “more practical” majors, too. My top-tier law school classmates came with majors ranging from English, Philosophy, Sociology, Communicatiobs, and Music to Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t sound like you know much about Ivy league degrees. Students have already signaled their worth to future employers by being admitted and being a candidate for their degree.

Students with Ivy humanities degrees are easily employed by consulting firms, Silicon Valley companies, the financial industry, media companies,and government.

Elite universities publish a post-graduation report summarizing where their students are employed or attending grad school each year. Typically 90 pct are employed within 6 months of graduation. You can take 5 minutes to google and read if you’re actually interested.

But your post seems to me more like you want to concern troll about majors such as “medieval studies.”

Yes, but also education, the arts, publishing, journalism, non-profits, and related fields that pay very badly, dragging the average down. You have to be entrepreneurial and street smart to get into a well remunerated position as a humanities major, even at an ivy. Less self directed students are better off in econ or CS or the like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The amount of replies on here talking about entering consulting or other lucrative career tracks with an art history Ivy degree are giving me hives.

First of all, almost none of us on this thread will be able to get our kids into an Ivy right now, unless seriously hooked (I say this an a parent at a private feeder that gets mentioned here) or rural low income. Wait another 5 years, spots will open up.

Secondly, the people who are already in consulting now who would be hiring your humanities grads are themselves deeply concerned about being replaced by AI. They won’t have time to hire more human overhead onto their team. The managers who migrate more of their budget and output to AI vs human employees will get to stay. That’s what pretty much all of the conferences and half of the strategic meetings I attend know talk about these days. Those entry level consulting jobs will be extinct by the time your DCs graduate if they are entering college now.

If you are filthy rich and your kids won’t have to work for a living, let them do whatever they want; spend it on at Ivy even. If they need to work for a living, best you can do is put them in robotics or chemical engineering (energy jobs), preferably at a state school so you can save at least $50k a year on tuition. Use that savings for a downpayment to buy them a commercial property near a city where AI data center buildout are getting approved so they can collect rent when they graduate. AI will replace a lot of jobs but can’t replace real estate and food, at least not for a while.

All of you who still care about the Ivy names are seriously delusional about what’s ahead. No one will care about the Yale name in 15 years; they care about the names of your AI agents. There will be drastically different markers for wealth, status and influence; the Ivies with all their 80-year-old tenure professors and old buildings made of stones that won’t have enough compute to run the most rudimentary AI data centers won’t be one of them.

The only delusional person here is the one thinking AI doomerism is fact.

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CS graduates have had a horrible time with jobs this year due to AI. 20% of med school graduates don’t get matched with residencies. The STEM majors are not a sure fire path to employment anymore.

Meanwhile I know a recent philosophy grad who got a great job offer in an AI company.

[Anonymous]

My kid is on a lot of AI course work in his poem curriculum Ivy. Liberal arts is the best place to be for the future. Nothing too specialized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is on a lot of AI course work in his poem curriculum Ivy. Liberal arts is the best place to be for the future. Nothing too specialized.

Open, not poem