willre00:
My question is, are liberal arts colleges worth a students money. Most of the more common liberal arts majors (if not almost all of them) seem to have average mid, if not substandard salary’s. Some of the most common are history, political science, English, and philosophy.
Their are also less classical majors offered at liberal art schools such as, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and neuroscience. These all pay well above average and offer good opportunities.
Job and pay prospects specific to these latter majors are not particularly good, probably due to the flood of graduates that these majors produce each year.
According to http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degrees_that_Pay_you_Back-sort.html , biology majors’ median starting and mid-career pay is lower than that of history, philosophy, and political science majors, and only barely higher than that of English majors.