Types of jobs for liberal arts majors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. My psych and history double major got me into a T3 law school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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).

There was a thread about Vassar where so,e posters said that Vassar had “expanded” from the liberal arts and therefore the science teachers were all new hires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. My psych and history double major got me into a T3 law school

so to answer OP's question, you need a masters to get a job if you have an undergrad in some liberal arts major.

[Anonymous]

^ I do not know why these people are posting on a college forum. RWNJS who despise anything with the word “liberal” in it? Hope their poor kids aren’t being guided to college decisions by them.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+10

[Anonymous]

I know a number of librarians making $150,000 a year approximately. But this is requires an advanced degree in library science/information science.

[Anonymous]

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?

McDonald's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a number of librarians making $150,000 a year approximately. But this is requires an advanced degree in library science/information science.

so, again, you need an advanced degree to get a good paying job if you major in some liberal arts in undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ I do not know why these people are posting on a college forum. RWNJS who despise anything with the word “liberal” in it? Hope their poor kids aren’t being guided to college decisions by them.

That must include OP since they put the word "liberal" in the thread title, oh, and the writer of that article that OP wrote, since it also references "liberal" there.

[Anonymous]

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?

That SEO spam article was written by ChatGPT.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a number of librarians making $150,000 a year approximately. But this is requires an advanced degree in library science/information science.

so, again, you need an advanced degree to get a good paying job if you major in some liberal arts in undergrad.

If you plan to into a real profession, you can’t get into it without grad school. And you wont get into grad school from a two year trade school or school of secretarial science unless your some kind of diamond in the rough and you have a sponsor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

That SEO spam article was written by ChatGPT.

https://chat.openai.com/share/03c0f077-4fdc-4dbc-ba0a-351114b8378a

At least ChatGPT seems to know the difference between “Arts” and “Liberal Arts”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a number of librarians making $150,000 a year approximately. But this is requires an advanced degree in library science/information science.

so, again, you need an advanced degree to get a good paying job if you major in some liberal arts in undergrad.

If you plan to into a real profession, you can’t get into it without grad school. And you wont get into grad school from a two year trade school or school of secretarial science unless your some kind of diamond in the rough and you have a sponsor.

I think the vision here is you get a STEM degree (NO LIBERAL ARTS) and somehow go your entire career without any further education or training, you just code for $300k a year forever at Google.

Every serious engineer I’ve ever met has at a minimum a Masters (many have two, or a PhD), any top corporate manager has an MBA, government officials are SMEs with subject area Masters or have a MPA/MPP, what is the high prestige/high pay career where a BS in Computer Science is the terminal degree?

I guess “startup founder” but you don’t even need a BA for that, and 99.9% of those aren’t the next Facebook or Google, so what exactly is the plan here?

[Anonymous]

OP probably thinks people spend four years studying flower arranging while bra-less at a liberal arts college. I don’t think you would survive in *real* liberal arts environment, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a number of librarians making $150,000 a year approximately. But this is requires an advanced degree in library science/information science.

so, again, you need an advanced degree to get a good paying job if you major in some liberal arts in undergrad.

If you plan to into a real profession, you can’t get into it without grad school. And you wont get into grad school from a two year trade school or school of secretarial science unless your some kind of diamond in the rough and you have a sponsor.

I think the vision here is you get a STEM degree (NO LIBERAL ARTS) and somehow go your entire career without any further education or training, you just code for $300k a year forever at Google.

Every serious engineer I’ve ever met has at a minimum a Masters (many have two, or a PhD), any top corporate manager has an MBA, government officials are SMEs with subject area Masters or have a MPA/MPP, what is the high prestige/high pay career where a BS in Computer Science is the terminal degree?

I guess “startup founder” but you don’t even need a BA for that, and 99.9% of those aren’t the next Facebook or Google, so what exactly is the plan here?

Just not true. Simply in my small group of fellow 90s grads with no graduate degree we have a co-founder of an investment bank, a senior managing partner of a global consulting firm, and 2 public company CEOs out of 10 fairly close friends. The others are successful as well well, just not to the same degree.