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[quote=Anonymous]I teach at a local second or third tier private college.  Our English majors have better job placement rates than business degrees (and oddly, than our nursing and educatation majors).  They do all kids of cool things - lots of nonprofit work (they work their way up in the nonprofit world - one is in some executive position at americops now, about 5 years after graduating), some publishing work for trade magazines (one quickly became editor though she also is in grad school now),  work in PR for small firms, etc.

I will say what makes the difference is 1) our strong internship program (many get jobs where they intern) 2) our program's focus on helping students translate how the deep critical thinking/reading/writing skills they learn make them marketable and 3) we're a second-teir program so our students don't come in focused on grad school or law school which means they try harder when they graduate to get a real job not a transitional job

I think I remmeber some studies showing liberal arts degrees start below the salaries of more vocational degrees (accounting, social work, education) but end up making more.  But perhaps those studies are skewed by people who go to grad school?  Bit I know that I graduated college in the early 90s before the whole STEM push (and I warn you guys that I think this is a bubble - encourage  your kids to do it if they really like it because I am not convined there will be a plethora of jobs for them on the other side in 10 years) and before college got so expensive that people were stratgic about majors - we majored in what we liked.  So I knew A LOT of liberal studies majors, and based on facebook even the ones who didn't go on to grad school ended up doing a variety of interesting, well-paid  work. [/quote]

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