Liberal Arts degrees

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Is a Liberal Arts degree any good or relevant in this society? Of course it is. Most teachers have a degree in Liberal Arts. The director of Stanford University's MBA program as saying his program doesn't prefer applicants who had business as an undergraduate major; instead, liberal-arts majors are among the program's preferred applicants.

While the specialized skills that come with other majors may seem to be an advantage, the universality of liberal-arts skills truly is your ace in the hole because you are not limited by a specialization. Employers can train new hires in specialized skills on the job. But they can't train workers to have the critical-thinking skills, problem-solving skills, and the capacity for lifelong learning that today's organizations require. Experts say that most people will change careers five to seven times in a lifetime; thus, specialized skills may be of limited value in the long run, while the depth and breadth of liberal-arts skills are limitless.

Now being a liberal arts major can change ones focus from "what I do" to "what I can do". Sometimes liberal-arts majors struggle a bit more than other majors when launching their careers, but the evidence shows that they tend to advance farther and be more sought out by CEOs for high-level jobs than non-liberal-arts graduate do." Liberal-arts majors in particular are the "what I can do" people.

Please, most employers don't care what your undergraduate degree is in--they just want to know if you can get long with others, can write and think critically, and you don't run with scissors. A liberal arts education is more than looking for a job--it is a about a quality of life. We have done nothing but reduce education to jobs in this country and have forgotten creativity, interdisciplinarity, and thinking outside the box that the humanities demands of you.


The more you believe in the great choice of major you made, the better you will be able to market yourself to employers.