Do you think a comparative literature degree is not as valuable as an English Lit. degree?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>People tend to think that comparative literature graduates are not in demand compared to English lit. graduates?</p>

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<p>“Money is a pretty bad way to measure the value of a college major,” but if you do – there is no difference between comparative literature and English lit, as both are in the field of humanities See:
<a href=“This Is Irrefutable Evidence Of The Value Of A Humanities Education | HuffPost College”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost;
<a href=“Opinion | The Decline and Fall of the English Major - The New York Times”>Opinion | The Decline and Fall of the English Major - The New York Times;
<a href=“Decline of the humanities up for debate - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/09/17/women-in-the-humanities/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/06/reinvigorating-the-humanities”>http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/06/reinvigorating-the-humanities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Question to the OP: why did you post this on the Yale and HS Life forums? What about those target audiences do you think would give you special insight on the relative worth of a chosen major?</p>

<p>Any major is as valuable as you make it to be. It’s not one will get you dismissed out of hand versus the other. Are you trying to align it for graduate school? Or a career? What’s the point of your question?</p>

<p>Of course, neither is on the level of automatic career prospects such as petroleum engineering or nursing. But you already know that.</p>

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<p>Well basically in the program Comp Lit is more marketable than english in certain cases. In Comp lit you obtain literary fluency in at least 3 but sometimes 4 or 5 other languages than english; this would be fairly useful in an international business company or in dealing with international relations related fields. While in english you learn how to direct pieces of literature and how to command the language in a more academic manner thus proving more valuable in Law or in Writing jobs. Both have their ups and downs, but the question is do you want to read English or do you want to learn and compare the arts and texts from other cultures in the original language? I hope I helped I am here if you have more questions.</p>