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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think Columbia is alone in having different admission standards for different colleges within the university.  Hiring professionals are typically interested in knowing WHAT you studied in addition to WHERE you studied.  I, for one, would be more impressed by an EE degree from Penn State than an Art History major from Columbia or Hotel Management major form Cornell (unless I was hiring for those niche professions).[/quote]

Any high-end placement contact knows that Art History at Columbia is positively brutal.  Hardest, by far, non-sci degree in the University.  Murder.  And any high-end placement contact knows that Hotel Mgt at Cornell is actually an undergrad business degree with a large standard lib-arts component (just like Cornell's NYS-assisted Industrial and Labor Relations school); you get maybe three actual courses in the hospitality industry (and at ILR, maybe 4 actual HR-related courses out of the total 32-34 in HR).

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and . . .

it's still an Art History degree.  Art history.[/quote]

and ... if you want to work at a museum, nothing else will do. Also helpful at auction houses, design firms, for teaching. You're apparently sneering about the money, but money isn't everything to many of us![/quote]

It's not just money.  There aren't many jobs - like a position in a symphony you have to wait for someone to die or build a museum.  Good luck.

Like PP,  I'm more impressed by an EE degree. [/quote]

Are you not aware of what a liberal arts degree is?  The major field of study is not vocational per se.  (from an Art History concentrator now very successful, and not working in any related field).  
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