Should I attend a liberal arts college in hopes to recieve a job straight from college, or graduate school?
I heard liberal arts prepare well for graduate school, but you need experience in the workforce for the masters degree- like in business.
Please help.
Liberal arts colleges appear to have a similar relationship to highly regarded MBA programs when compared their university peers:
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What colleges are you thinking of?
What are your stats?
What’s your budget? Can your parents pay for their EFC?
Liberal arts is very beneficial. You can get lots of jobs with a degree from an LAC. Your major will help determine what you do, but not necessarily: Paralegal; journalism; computer programmer; government work in various fields in everything from meteorology to running for office–there’s a huge range.
After LAC some people choose to also get professional training, by going to business school, picking up a bookkeeping skill set; taking nursing training; radiology; attending law school or medical school; etc.
Others start their own businesses or become writers and novelists, or artists or whatever you can imagine.
Liberal arts teaches you 1) how to think critically and 2) how to think creatively with 3) clarity of expression (writing) and 4) gives you problem-solving skills. Your major (economics/ statistics/ political science/ history/ some LACs like Skidmore have accounting and business/ nursing/ art history) will help determine what your entry-level job prospects are.
You can get a professional or vocational degree, such as in accounting or welding, from a community college directly out of high school, which is great. But having a liberal arts degree with accounting skills or welding will be better, to my mind, because you will have learned how to parse information well and you will have learned how to be a better problem solver and manager. The liberal arts will help you develop the imagination to turn your skill set into a more marketable path in life.