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Anonymous wrote:I think some of you are confused as to what a liberal arts education is. Maybe you think it means majoring in a humanities or social sciences discipline? It doesn't.

A liberal arts education means that you take core classes in a wide range of subjects, from humanities to social sciences to hard sciences. Your ultimate major can be anything from poetry to physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

A liberal arts degree is typically contrasted with a technical or vocational degree.

I'm sorry but in the common vernacular, a liberal arts degree pretty much always mean a humanities-focused degree. And that is the meaning of the original post. I took courses across many disciplines including taking as many humanities and social sciences as I could fit in with my STEM major, but I would never say I have a liberal arts degree. People would get an incorrect understanding if I did.

Anonymous wrote:I think some of you are confused as to what a liberal arts education is. Maybe you think it means majoring in a humanities or social sciences discipline? It doesn't.

A liberal arts education means that you take core classes in a wide range of subjects, from humanities to social sciences to hard sciences. Your ultimate major can be anything from poetry to physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

A liberal arts degree is typically contrasted with a technical or vocational degree.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t agree more. I went to a liberal arts degree & worked in investment banking in ny. There were more colleagues with liberal arts degrees than finance/business majors (for undergrad). I loved having them on my team bc pretty much across the board they were great writers and stepped back and looked at various approaches to everything.

There’s a well documented reason for this, and spoiler alert, it’s not the inherent superiority of a liberal arts education.

Anonymous wrote:The return on investment for a STEM degree is about double that of a LA egree, based on the same data set.

Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t agree more. I went to a liberal arts degree & worked in investment banking in ny. There were more colleagues with liberal arts degrees than finance/business majors (for undergrad). I loved having them on my team bc pretty much across the board they were great writers and stepped back and looked at various approaches to everything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts is so misunderstood. It doesn't just mean being a philosophy major. You can be a science major. You can be a math major. You can even be a computer science major at many school. I an not even sure there is something called a "liberal arts degree". You can get a degree in a particular subject from a liberal arts college or the arts and sciences program of a university.

DH and I went to liberal arts colleges and our combined income is over $1m. One kid went to a liberal arts college and the other to the Arts and Sciences school of a flagship university and both have great jobs.

Please tell us what you do to earn that kind of money.

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts is so misunderstood. It doesn't just mean being a philosophy major. You can be a science major. You can be a math major. You can even be a computer science major at many school. I an not even sure there is something called a "liberal arts degree". You can get a degree in a particular subject from a liberal arts college or the arts and sciences program of a university.

DH and I went to liberal arts colleges and our combined income is over $1m. One kid went to a liberal arts college and the other to the Arts and Sciences school of a flagship university and both have great jobs.