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[quote=Anonymous]OP, liberal arts/humanities students just have to find their own path.

I'm sympathetic to your kid.  I was interested in getting an MBA when I started college in parent times.  But even then you needed work experience to get into the best programs.  I also wanted to take a lot of liberal arts classes (my fantasy job was medieval history professor).  My last decision re: majoring was to jettison a business/liberal arts dual degree program in favor of just an econ BA.  And I stayed on the softer side of econ...int'l development, trade, and labor economics...which was more typically liberal artsy.  It took me 9 months after graduation to find a real full-time job and I ended up as a GS-7 fed at an agency that interested me.  Rose to GS-13.  Then, after 7 years, I went to a top MBA program and went F500 corporate.  
Yes, there are humanities grads at MBA schools.  Were back then and still are now.  There are a lot of econ, business, and engineering students, but the "other" category is large.

There are many different business jobs a liberal arts major can do.  Most of them involve data analysis and information synthesis.  And other skills that every college student works on - planning, communication, etc.

Since I was an econ major and have an MBA and have worked with campus hiring, I'm pretty comfortable saying that Intro Econ classes and Intro Accountimg aren't highly relevant to most business jobs.  Spreadsheeting and data analysis are relevant.  So statistics and the new data science classes might be useful.  Any kind of software skills above the norm are usually helpful.

Your son needs to determinedly search among a bigger, more varied, and perhaps lower-paying set of opportunities than his more easily labelled peers.  That's just how it's been since the 80s at a minimum.  To prove this, I'm going to quote a book in my next post.

As far as concrete next steps, I'd suggest that your son make a well-reasoned list of target employers based on LinkedIn and alumni databases.  Have him cold e-mail alums for career advice.  I've been contacted less than 10 times in 20 years out of MBA.  It's not a burden.  Just looking at what older people with his major have done with their careers may be instructive. [/quote]

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