Many, many legends in the business and in the tech world believe that a LAC education is the best path for the future; here’s another one - legendary investor Bill Miller
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/investor-bill-miller-attributes-his-success-to-studying-philosophy.html?__source=linkedin|main
He studied philosophy as a PhD student at a research university, not a LAC. (Undergraduate study in economics at a LAC.)
@ucbalumnus, yes and Philosophy is what he attributes much of his success to - “I attribute much of my business success to the analytical training and habits of mind that were developed when I was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins,” Miller says.
Mark Cuban agrees. Cuban was a business major graduate from Kelley. "While it may seem counter-intuitive for a finance executive to attribute his success to studying philosophy, billionaire tech investor Mark Cuban also sees the benefits. “I would not want to be a CPA right now. I would not want to be an accountant right now,” says Cuban, speaking at SXSW in Austin. “I would rather be a philosophy major.” ".
Mark Cuban goes to say ““Knowing how to critically think and assess them from a global perspective I think is going to be more valuable than what we see as exciting careers today which might be programming or CPA or those types of things,” Cuban says.”
Sounds good, but it would not shock me to learn that they are hiring the same finance, economics, accounting and math majors as everybody else.
@BasicOhioParent, I don’t think you can bunch them all together anymore, nor do I believe that Accounting majors are in the same demand. I do believe that a Math major is the most coveted at the top investment banking firms.