<p>Check out careerbuilder.com for articles on this topic including the following: What Can I Do With a Liberal Arts Degree?
Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
<a href="http://careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/careerbytes/CBArticle.aspx?articleID=417%5B/url%5D">http://careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/careerbytes/CBArticle.aspx?articleID=417</a></p>
<p>I believe Smith would also make the list of elite LAC's. I would like to know what happens to the 80% of grads who get dinged by the Ibanks--which as many know is not for everyone either.</p>
<p>Better yet what happens to the grads from the #75 LAC. Or the liberal arts majors from schools like Goucher or Grinnell who are not on the Ibank lists.</p>
<p>I apologize for the word "remediate," but in my experience and the experience of other university professors I know, business undergrads do not not write as well as liberal arts undergraduates. In addition, their analytical and research skills are not as strong. They also do not have as much in the way of contextual, cultural and historical knowledge. Also, in my experience, businesses, especially those with international operations, WANT employees who understand cultures and histories and societies and political systems and they get that liberal arts graduates bring that base of information and world view to their work endeavors.</p>
<p>Xiggi, thanks for the recruitment listing -- were there any recruiting firms outside the area of financial services?</p>
<p>(Thanks also to Dad'o'2 and Barrons for highlighting the original purpose of this thread...)</p>
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<p>What do Grinnell graduates do after graduation? </p>
<p>Immediately after graduation, 30% of Grinnellians in recent classes have gone directly to graduate or professional school, 50% entered the workplace, and 20% engaged in public service pursuits, volunteer work, or travel. Many of those who do not go immediately to graduate or professional school do so later: ten years after graduation, over 50% of a class typically holds at least one advanced degree. For its size, Grinnell produces a very large number of Ph.D.s, ranking 19th among all U.S. college and university undergraduate programs. </p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.grinnell.edu/admission/faq/grads/%5B/url%5D">http://www.grinnell.edu/admission/faq/grads/</a></p>
<p>I couldn't find Goucher's stats, but according to their website, </p>
<p>"Our graduates leave here and go on to do great things in all different arenas. They pursue graduate studies, they participate in volunteer organizations, and they jumpstart their careers right after commencement. "</p>
<p>(That's helpful.... Hence the plea for statistics, concrete examples, and specificity from this illiterate engineer lacking the analytical and critical thinking skills to figure this out and without the global perspective to place it in context. ;) )</p>
<p>((I'm still guessing how I will react if my D announces her history of art major, "That's wonderful, honey. Are you planning on grad school or law school?"))</p>
<p>So liberal arts majors don't make much money? Graduate/B-School/Law School/Med School it is! I'll just have to concentrate on getting a stellar GPA.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Fendrock, the financial and consulting companies do indeed dominate the recruiting at CMC. Here's a list of October 2006. There is also a full calendar available at <a href="http://emsweb.claremont.edu/CMCMC/MasterCalendar.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://emsweb.claremont.edu/CMCMC/MasterCalendar.aspx</a>. </p>
<p>From there, you can play with the dates, select Career Services, and also check the other 5C schools. In last year's list for October, you'll see that U.S. Department of State, The Walt Disney Company, Intel Corporation, the CIA, Boeing, NERA Economic Consulting, and the Peace Corps offered a slight departure from the norm of financial and consulting firms.</p>
<p>2 Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC
3 UBS Investment Bank
3 Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
3 Imperial Capital, LLC
3 IDS Real Estate Group
4 Grant Thornton
4 Piper Jaffray & Co.
4 U.S. Department of State
5 Relational Investors LLC
5 The Walt Disney Company
5 Graduate & Professional School Day
5 The Boston Consulting Group
6 Barrington Associates
6 CIBC World Markets
9 Deloitte & Touche
9 Susquehanna International Group
9 The Walt Disney Company
9 Mercer Human Resource Consulting
10 PricewaterhouseCoopers
10 Navigant Consulting
11 Intel Corporation
11 KPMG LLP
11 Western Asset Management
12 Moss Adams LLP
12 Countrywide Securities Corporation
13 Intel Corporation
13 Ernst & Young LLP
14 Marsico Capital Management, LLC
18 Boeing
18 Countrywide Institutional Mortgage Services Group
18 Central Intelligence Agency
19 Bain & Company
19 JPMorgan Investment Banking
20 Mercer Human Resource Consulting
20 Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group
20 The Monitor Group
23 CRA International
23 The Capital Group
24 The Boston Consulting Group
24 Peace Corps
25 George K. Baum & Company
25 Freeman & Mills
25 Navigant Consulting
26 Deloitte Consulting
27 Teach for America
27 Deloitte Consulting
31 Criterium Consulting Group, Inc.
31 McGladrey & Pullen
1 NERA Economic Consulting
1 Teach for America 5-C Alumni Panel
1 UBS Investment Bank
3 Clarkston Consulting
3 IDS Real Estate Group
3 Lehman Brothers</p>
<p>Alchemy-</p>
<p>Just do like I did and marry well. ;)</p>
<p>"Better yet what happens to the grads from the #75 LAC."</p>
<p>No matter the type of school, on-campus recruitment drops with the prestige of the college. I, too, wonder what happens to the engineers who graduate from one of the lesser respected universities. My guess is that it's about the same as those who graduate from lesser known LACs. Most eventually find employment, but it requires more off-campus effort.</p>
<p>Many liberal arts graduates do indeed go into business as well as into medicine, law, journalism, education -- pretty much any of the professional careers. Many also stay in academia as graduate students and then professors, probably because they like the learning environment. I think a better question might be: What careers are closed off to liberal arts majors?</p>
<p>"For example: "businesses can teach students what they need for business (or can pay for graduate business work), but they can't remediate what could have been acquired in a liberal arts setting."</p>
<p>This kind of statement has a definite message behind it, doesn't it? Remediate? Business majors have to be remediated?"</p>
<p>As noted, a very large number of the undergraduate business schools have heavier liberal arts requirements (especially for breadth, math, and, for some, languages) than do the liberal arts schools - and the students' ability to get into the programs is dependent upon how well they do in those liberal arts programs (unlike the liberal arts majors, I having been one.)</p>
<p>Mini, the last analysis I've seen of median SAT scores by discipline showed that Ed majors had the lowest, with undergrad business majors just above them. Wish I could find the study.</p>
<p>It would be great if we could all keep believing that because Wharton, U Texas, U Michigan and a few other outliers attract strong students and then give them a rigorous whupping while they're there, that means that the majority of business programs do the same. I don't think the typical grad of U. New Hampshire or Baruch or Quinnipiac get the same workout as the kid at Wharton... but if you keep insisting, it must be so.</p>
<p>My company has found that the vast majority of business majors (undergrad, not MBA) are an inch deep and a mile wide. I feel bad for a kid who has wasted tuition money taking "organizational behavior 101" or "business to business marketing". By the time those textbooks can be printed, the information in them is obsolete. Better the kid should take a class on Ancient Rome ( a much better tutorial on Org Behavior, by the way) and read Fortune magazine on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Dad'o'2: I'm definitely doing that, heheh.</p>
<p>I guess I'll just major in anthropology. Truth be told, I've always wanted to be an archaeologist and I love the idea of a private liberal arts education. I don't think I'd mind teaching it either.</p>
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As noted, a very large number of the undergraduate business schools have heavier liberal arts requirements (especially for breadth, math, and, for some, languages) than do the liberal arts schools - and the students' ability to get into the programs is dependent upon how well they do in those liberal arts programs (unlike the liberal arts majors, I having been one.)
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<p>As a counterpoint, isn't there also a very large number of schools were the liberal arts requirements can be met through IB, AP, or CC dual credits programs? With today's focus on programs with assimilated college credits, it has become quite common for students to accumulate enough credits to start with a sophomore ranking, if not a junior one, and bypass almost all classes that typically compose a core curriculum. </p>
<p>Of course, the level of the universities accepting those "advanced" programs as truly compatible with their own freshman and sophomore classes is a matter of individual appreciation.</p>
<p>"Mini, the last analysis I've seen of median SAT scores by discipline showed that Ed majors had the lowest, with undergrad business majors just above them. Wish I could find the study."</p>
<p>And your point is? (I'm willing to assume it's true, but if you are going to judge the quality of education offered by average SATs, why not just skip the education part and award the degrees based on SAT scores?)</p>
<p>Take a look at the business pre-req requirements at some of the state schools which have junior year entry into the business programs - try UMaryland, UWashington, UMinnesota just as examples - and you'll quickly see that the requirements are stiffer (and include GPA requirements) than those necessary to complete a liberal arts major. And, specifically, stiffer in the liberal arts. And they have to earn that GPA in the same classes with, and competing against, the liberal arts majors.</p>
<p>Look - I'm not at all trying to put down liberal arts programs. I graduated from one, and went on to graduate study in the same, and my older d. is following a similar path. But I have also learned (thanks to my analytical skills developed through my liberal arts education) that my view of business programs was antiquated, and the comparison I would make between them and liberal arts programs - especially where those programs exist inside the same institution - was largely anachronistic. It ain't the way it was 25 years ago.</p>
<p>"I still don't think it's clear whether "liberal arts" means a "liberal arts school" (Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, etc.)"</p>
<p>Those are very poor examples. Most liberal arts schools don't much resemble Amherst, Williams, Wellesley (or Claremont-McKenna). Try Lycoming, Erskine, William Jewell, or Houghton.</p>
<p>I still don't think it's clear whether "liberal arts" means a "liberal arts school" (Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, etc.) or whether it means a "liberal arts education" which means that students must have a broad-based education to graduate. I went to an Ivy, and I consider myself a product of a liberal arts education. Because I now teach at a university dominated by professional schools but with a CAS, I can see first-hand the difference between the types of education. For example, those in the engineering school aren't used to discussion-based classes, and, when they do take one as a rare elective, they are blown away by the free exchange of opinion and the level of interpetation required by the professor. Of course, engineers must be trained as engineers. We don't want English or biology or government majors designing our commercial airplanes or our medical imaging processors. But the type of education, apart from the major itself, is very different.</p>
<p>"What careers are closed off to liberal arts majors?"</p>
<p>No careers are closed off to liberal arts majors. No careers are closed off to engineers either. Depends on what additional training/education you have. The sky's the limit.</p>
<p>I'm trying to think of what I took as a business major at UNC. I know I had at least 4 English classes (comp and lit), 2 PoliSci, 2 YEARS of Spanish, 2 Sciences plus lab, Calc and Stats, Humanities (I can't count all toward my BS because some of them were toward music performance), plus all the business classes- finance, banking, econ, marketing, acctg, yes org behavior (that was a joke, agreed).</p>
<p>ps Forgot- 1 Anthro, 2 Histories, 1 Sociology, and oh, can't forget "Sex Roles in Society".</p>
<p>Now here is the recruitment list from a good Big 10 business program that graduates about 650 students/year.</p>
<p>3M</p>
<p>A
AAR Corporation
ABD Insurance & Financial Services
Abercrombie & Fitch
ABF Freight System, Inc.
Accenture
Accredited Home Lenders
AccuVal Associates, Inc.
ACNielsen
ACNielsen Analytic Consulting
Actuant Corporation
Actuaries Unlimited
ACUITY
Admission Possible
Advanced Micro Devices
AEGON Group
Aerotek
AFLAC
AFN - Advantage Freight Network
AIG (American International Group)
ALDI Inc.
Alliant Energy
Allianz Life
Allied Insurance
Allstate Financial
Allstate Financial/Actuarial
Allstate Insurance Company
Allstate Investments, LLC
American Appraisal Associates
American Classic Agency
American Family Insurance
American Girl
American Red Cross
American TV & Appliance
AmeriCorps*NCCC
Ameriprise Corporate
Ameriprise Financial/Chicago
Ameriquest Mortgage Company
AmerUs Group
Aon Consulting
Aon Corporation
Aon Risk Services
Apex Systems Inc.
APS Healthcare
Archon Group
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
Associated Bank
Assurant Health
AT&T, WI Consumer Markets
ATTIC Correctional Services, Inc.
Aviva (formerly AmerUs Group)</p>
<p>B
BAE SYSTEMS
Bank of America
Bank of America/Commercial Real Estate
Banta Corporation
Barnes Distribution
Batteries Plus, LLC
BBYO, Inc.
BDO Seidman, LLP
Becker Professional Review
Bemis Company, Inc.
Benfield Group, Inc.
Berbee Information Networks
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Blackman Kallick Bartelstein, LLP
BlackRock
Blain's Farm & Fleet
Blue Stone International, LLC
BMO Capital Markets (formerly Harris Nesbitt)
BPG Properties Ltd.
Bradford Group, The
Brady Corporation
Broan-NuTone, LLC
Brown Shoe Company/Famous Footwear/Naturalizer
Brunswick Corporation
Buckle, The</p>
<p>C
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Canon Business Solutions
Capital One
CapitalSource
Capmark (formerly GMAC Commercial Mortgage)
Cardinal Health
CareerBuilder.com
Cargill Meat Solutions
Carlson Companies
Carlson Real Estate
CB Richard Ellis
CCA Strategies, LLC
Central Intelligence Agency
Cerner Corporation
Charter Steel
Chicago Apartment Finders
Chicago Office Technology Group
Chicago Trading Company (CTC, LLC)
Church Mutual Insurance Company
CIGNA
Cintas Corporation/Madison
Cintas Corporation/Rockford
Cisco Systems, Inc.
City of Madison Police Department
Cleary Gull Inc.
Clifton Gunderson LLP
CNA Insurance
CNH Capital
Coe-Truman Technologies, Inc. (OASIS Division)
College Pro Painters, (US) Ltd.
Command Transportation
Consolidated Electrical Distributors
Consolidated Graphics
Consolidated Trading
Continental Properties Company, Inc.
Cottingham & Butler Inc.
Countrywide Financial
Covance
Credit Suisse
CS Stars
CSM Corporation
CUNA Mutual Group
CustomCall Data Systems, Inc.
Customs and Border Protection - Department of Homeland Security
CWCapital, LLC
Cygnus Atratus</p>
<p>D
Dane County Sheriff's Office
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Deloitte Consulting LLP/Actuarial
Department of Public Instruction AmeriCorps*VISTA Project
Developers Diversified Realty
Diebold, Inc.
Direct Supply
Discover Financial Services LLC
Dominion Bond Rating Service
Dominium Development & Acquisition
Driehaus Capital Management LLC
Duff & Phelps</p>
<p>E
E&J Gallo Winery
Eastdil Secured
Eaton Corporation
Eclipse Marketing, Inc.
Ecolab, Inc.
EcoSure
EMTEQ
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Epic Systems Corporation
Ernst & Young LLP
Ernst & Young/Actuarial
Ernst & Young/Transaction Real Estate Advisory Services
ERP Visions
Esurance</p>
<p>F
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
Fairview Health Services
Family Heritage
Farin & Associates
Fast Enterprises
FBI
FDIC
Federal Bureau of Prisons FCI Oxford
Federated Mutual Insurance
Finish Line Inc.
First Bank/Illinois
First Supply LLC
Fisher Investments
Fitch Ratings
Ford Motor Company
Freddie Mac
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Fujitsu Consulting (formerly Greenbrier & Russel, Inc.)
Fund for Public Research</p>
<p>G
Gander Mountain
Gap, Inc. - Old Navy Division
GE/Commerical Finance
GEICO
General Casualty Insurance
General Electric
General Growth Properties
General Mills, Inc.
General Mills, Inc./Sales Division
Geneva Organization, The
Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC
GMAC-RFC
GMR Marketing
Go Global! And the International Academic Internships Initiative
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Good Shepherd Volunteers
Goodrich Corporation
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Grainger Inc.
Grant Thornton LLP
Great Wolf Resorts
Great-West Healthcare
Great-West Life & Annuity
GUESS?, Inc.
Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC.</p>
<p>H
Halliburton
Hammes Company
Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC
Hartford Life Insurance Company
Hartford, The
Hausmann-Johnson Insurance
HAVI Global Solutions
Hays Companies
Healthcare Services Group Inc.
Hearthstone
Heartland Business Systems
Heitman LLC
Hertz Corporation
Hewitt Associates/Actuarial
Hewlett-Packard
HFF
Hillstone Restaurant Group
Hines
Homescout Realty
HON Company, The
Horizon
Hormel Foods Corporation
Horton Group, The
Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin
Hovde Financial
HSBC
Humana
Humana Inc./Corporate
Humatal LLC
Hy Cite Corporation
Hyperion Solutions</p>
<p>I
IBM Corporation
Idea Centre @ Skyline, The
IKON Office Solutions
Impact Networking
Inland Companies
InPro Corporation
Insight Global, Inc.
Institutional Capital, LLC
Integra Realty Resources
International Dairy Queen
Intuit, Inc.
Investment Technology Group, Inc.
Invitrogen Corporation
Inzum, Inc.
Ipsos-ASI
IT Convergence</p>
<p>J
John Deere Credit
John Hancock Financial Network
Johnson Bank
Johnson Financial Group
JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
Jones Lang LaSalle
Joy Realty Associates, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase - CMBS</p>
<p>K
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Keller Williams Realty
Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel, LP
Kerry Americas
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kohler Company
Kohl's Department Stores
KPMG LLP
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer/Product Management
Kroger Company, The</p>
<p>L
Ladish Company, Inc.
Landmark Resort
Lands' End
LaSalle Bank Corporation
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers/Real Estate
Liberty Mutual Group
Lincoln Advisory Group
Lincoln Financial Group
Lincoln National Corporation
Lockton Companies
Lutheran Social Services</p>
<p>M
M&I Bank (Marshall & Ilsley Corporation)
Macquarie Capital Partners
Macrovision
Macy's North
Mark Travel Corporation
Marsh, Inc.
Martin D Verhelst, CPA
Mason Street Advisors
Maxim Healthcare Services
MBI, Inc.
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
Medical College of Wisconsin
Medline Industries, Inc.
Medtronic, Inc.
Menards
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Mercury Marine
Merrill Lynch Capital
Metavante
MetLife
Microsoft Corporation
Miller Brewing Company
Milliman, Inc.
Milwaukee Bucks - NBA Basketball
MilwaukeeJobs.com
Mirkovich and Associates
Moody's Investors Service
Mortenson Matzelle Meldrum</p>
<p>N
NAI MLG Commercial
Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (member of AIG)
National Futures Association
National Interstate Insurance
Nationstar Mortgage LLC
Navistar
Nestle USA
Nestle USA/Sales
Netconcepts
New York Life
Newell Rubbermaid
Nielsen Media Research
NorthStar Asset Management
NorthStar Resource Group
Northwestern Investment Management Company
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network/Wisconsin
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual/Actuarial</p>
<p>O
Office of State Employment Relations
OpenBI, LLC
Opportunity Capital
Oshkosh Truck Corporation
Otis Elevator Company
Oxford Global Resources, Inc.</p>
<p>P
Park National Bank
Peace Corps
Perkins Marie Callenders, Inc.
PETsMART
Pfingsten Partners, LLC
Philip Morris USA
Phillips Edison & Company
Pieper Electric, Inc.
Piper Jaffray & Co.
PKWARE, Inc.
PLATO Learning, Inc.
Preschools and Schools of Hope Projects
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Principal Financial Group, The
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble/Consumer & Market Knowledge
Protiviti
Prudential Capital Group
Prudential Financial
Prudential Mortgage Capital Company
Prudential Mortgage Capital Company/New York
Pyramis Global Advisors</p>
<p>Q
Quad/Graphics
Quantitative Services Group</p>
<p>R
Rainsoft
RBC Dain Rauscher
Ready Pest Control
RED Capital Group
Reden & Anders
Regence Group, The
Rehrig Pacific Company
Relay Sponsorship & Event Marketing
Remington Associates
Research International
Ridge Property Trust
RLI Insurance Company
Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc.
Rockford Police Department
Rockwell Automation
Roehl Transport Inc.
Ross Realty
Roundy's Supermarkets
Russell Investment Group
Ryerson Inc.</p>
<p>S
Savvian Advisors, LLC
SC Johnson & Son, Inc.
Schneider National
Seaquist Closures
Sears Holdings Corporation
Secura
Securian Financial Group
Selective Insurance
Sentry Insurance
Shell Oil Company
ShoreView Industries LLC
Six Flags Great America
SMW Trading Company
Society Insurance
Southwestern Company
Spectrum Brands
St. Paul Travelers
Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG)
Starcom Worldwide
State Farm Insurance Companies
State of Wisconsin - Office of State Employement Relations
Steve & Barry's University Sportswear
Stockamp & Associates
Strive Group, The
Strohm Ballweg, LLP
Stryker Medical
Suby, Von Haden & Associates
Swett & Crawford
Swiss Colony, Inc., The</p>
<p>T
T.Wall Properties
Target Corporation
Target Distribution
Target Stores
TDS (Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.)
Teach For America
Technical Concepts, LLC
TEKsystems
Textbook Guy, The
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
TNS
Towers Perrin
Transwestern
Trisept Solutions
Trustmark Insurance Company
TTI</p>
<p>U
U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company
UBS Global Asset Management
Uline
UMB Fund Services, Inc.
Uniek, Inc.
United Airlines
United States Steel
UnitedHealth Group
University Directories
UPS
Urban League of Greater Madison, The
US Bancorp
US Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
US Census Bureau
US Department of State
US Navy Officer Programs
UW Credit Union
UW Police Department
UW-Madison Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
UW-Madison Occupational Therapy Program
UW-Madison Office of Human Resources</p>
<p>V
VA-Veterans Canteen Service
Vector Marketing
Ventas, Inc.
VerticalXchange
Virchow Krause & Company, LLP
VW Credit, Inc</p>
<p>W
W.R. Huff Asset Management
Wachovia Securities-Corporate and Investment Banking
Waddell & Reed
Walgreens
Walt Disney World College Program
Walton Street Capital
Washington Mutual
Waterton Associates, LLC
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
WellPoint
Wells Capital Management
Wells Fargo Advantage Funds
Wells Fargo Corporate Finance
Wells Fargo Financial
Wells Fargo Wholesale Bank
Westrope
William Charles, Ltd.
Willis Re
Wipfli
Wisconsin Alumni Association
Wisconsin Department of Administration
Wisconsin Department of Revenue
Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau
Wisconsin MBA
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPSC)
Wolseley North America-Ferguson/Stock/Wolseley Canada
World Data Products
World Kitchen
WPS Health Insurance Corporation
Wyndham Vacation Ownership</p>
<p>X</p>
<p>Y</p>
<p>Z
ZS Associates
Zurich North America</p>
<p>Clearly, humanities majors can find jobs without going to grad school. Many jobs do not require prior experience (consulting is a common example). However, they do not have the type of fall back employment that an engineer would. </p>
<p>An engineer can apply for virtually any job a humanities major can (consulting, investment banking, etc.), plus the engineer can apply for engineering jobs. The humanities major does not have that fallback option. Engineers at my school (of which I am not one) also have to take several humanities classes to graduate. </p>
<p>Also, this topic seems to focus on humanities majors from top schools. Opportunities are not as good for humanities majors from non name brand schools. Many people are not lucky enough to get a job that makes full use of their intellect.</p>
<p>I guess I'm still not in sync with this chain so thanks for reminding me, but I also don't buy that you need a business major to work for many of the companies in that list posted up a few. In fact, I went to a liberal arts college and we didn't have "business" as a major, so maybe in this day and age the definition of liberal arts has changed. Fact is, many companies have tuition reimbursement programs, so I would advise a student with a passion for philosophy or languages or history or whatever to get their BA, get into a company and use the tuition reimbursement program to pay for their MBA. If a young person gets into a large company they will have all kinds of leadership development programs the biggest hurdle is getting in the door. For an undergraduate degree there are entry level job oppotunties in all industries: English majors who like to write can work in HR on employee communications materials, as technical writiers, corporate communications. Sociology majors can work doing forecasting, market research, strategy, analysis. Psych majors can find jobs in counseling, child development, law enforcement....Personally our recuiters look for enthusiastic, outgoing kids who can write and speak effectively. With the acception of certain engineering or finance jobs it really doesn't matter what the "major" was. That said, I would say to any young person take every internship you can find, do a capstone project if your school has one and if you're shy or uncomfortable putting yourself forth...get over it quick...and you will find a job. Although one young man I met was bent on being in marketing and he was so shy and so reserved. I followed him for a year or two and he managed to land a job with a local orchestra in marketing. Perfect. No money, but he's been there every since and happy as a clam. My company would have eaten him up and spit him out after a week. So even if you are shy and reserved there's a place. Every big company posts job openings on line so many recruiting staff are not whizzing all over the country anymore. They hit a few hotspots where they've had good luck finding and placing candidates but trolling the on-line apps is very real these days. Lastly, if a parent desires their kid to graduate and land a 6 figure job right out of undergrad well....better have a strong family business to put junior in or tell them to get an education in a skill. If they do unbelievably land a 6 figure job at age 21, then they will have no time to spend the money because they will be working an 80 hour week...which might be OK.</p>