<p>i want to know if anyone here who has or knows someone who has a liberal arts degree such as( history, anthropology, english,etcc...) and sucessfully found a good job i want to be assured that there is hope for liberal art majors and that it is possible for liberal art grads to have sucessful and lucrative jobs.</p>
<p>if there weren't, dont you think all of the potential liberal arts majors would have realized that by now? and the traditionally 'top' schools wouldn't encourage students to choose a liberal arts major.</p>
<p>Many if not most liberal arts majors at "top schools" continue to graduate or professional school. Even Harvard does not claim that a history major is going to find a great paying job straight out of college.</p>
<p>well history, english -> teaching in high school is good...if you want. it's decent enough.</p>
<p>I would think english/history majors at HYP would not be at much disadvantage for traditional (and less technical) corp fin/ibd/m&a jobs. (I mean the quantitative level is very basic and the long training period is fully sufficient)</p>
<p>capital markets/s&t/credit products/risk managementc, etc is a different story of course.</p>
<p>any other opinions?</p>
<p>I know ibankers who have degrees in really random subjects (one from Dartmouth who majored in Art History, another from Harvard who majored in Philosophy and the head of Global Equities at Citi graduated from Princeton with a degree in Theology) but these are degrees from ivies. If you aren't at an ivy, I would say your chances of landing one of those lucrative jobs with a liberal arts degree are very small.</p>
<p>If you guys haven't noticed, the poster didn't saying anything about getting a job in the financial world or anything of the sort. All he/she wanted to know was about getting a job post graduation that might be lucrative. I would argue that a liberal arts major (i.e. english, history, etc) could land a good job in management consulting. Yes, again, traditionally the candidate should come from an ivy (<em>rolls eyes</em>) (if they want to work at Bain or McKinsey) but there are some management consulting firms which hire people with such backgrounds due to the fact they can critically think instead of simply just churning out a payout model.</p>
<p>Again, I would stress for most people who go into liberal arts as a major your best bet in terms of getting a more lucrative job is getting that graduate degree as ultimately your B.A. is not REALLY worth the paper its written upon.</p>