Hi, i want to ask your opinion about the best business liberal art colleges in America. I made research and realized that quit few LACs teach business?
And if you have any idea about best LACs in Accounting and Product Management, please recommend! Thank you
That seems to be contradictory. Liberal Arts Colleges are liberal arts colleges. Small schools that concentrate on giving well rounded education.
Top LACs send many of their econ grads to finance, consulting, etc. They include Amherst, Williams, Colgate, etc.
What does this phrase mean “liberal arts colleges help you grow as a person”?
Hint: if you are 18 or 19 and you are preoccupied with accounting and product management you simply have not had the time to be exposed in depth during your formative years to this type of education.
So if I were you- and I were expected to write an essay worthy of a student at one of these 3 colleges- I would review the mission statements of these colleges and also the “outcomes” testimonies from their graduates found in their career planning departments’ descriptions as delivered by the colleges’ own websites.
Then you will see whether studying “business” is what you want and need and aspire to achieve at this point in your life and how a US liberal arts education will prepare you for whatever life has in store for you and/or you make of your life.
Here is a link that some may find useful in their understanding of what makes Colgate in particular a smart
choice for undergraduate education as per the liberal arts model.
Some good liberal arts colleges that offer business include Claremont McKenna, Holy Cross, and Washington & Lee.
Some good smaller schools for business would include Bucknell, Lehigh, Bentley, and Babson.
Indiana U, a large public research university, offers a Liberal Arts & Management Program in its College of Arts & Sciences. Indiana makes it relatively easy to complete majors and minors across different constituent schools of the University. The Kelly School of business offers several minors and certificates in business that are available to students in other schools of the University.
As an vocational professional field, business usually is not considered as a field one would study if you were seeking a liberal arts education. Often, students in a liberal arts college who have an interest in business will major in economics and supplement this with relevant internships. Often students at liberal arts colleges, who have an interest in business , will pursue this in graduate business school after first completing their undergrad degree in a non-business field.
Markham’s point is important. Note that top MBA’s prefer “non business” majors, especially STEM, humanities (philosophy, foreign languages, English), economics, and a combination of the above.
A business major probably wouldn’t be my first choice. It’s counterintuitive, but most businesses don’t seek out “business” as a major in their recruiting process. (I’m sure there are exceptions, particularly in specific areas like accounting.)
I’d suggest choosing a rigorous major that interests you and focusing on developing some good internship and part-time opportunities. Recruiters will find actual work experience more useful than some general business coursework.