<p>In answer to your question, can you land a career track job with a liberal arts degree? Yes, if you lay the foundation. No, if you show up at the HR department at age 22, with a BA/BS but no other work experience or inside introduction.</p>
<p>PS, on this board LAC is shorthand for SMALL liberal arts college, though technically a degree from a medium private of large public, like Harvard or UCBerkeley, could be considered a degree from a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Yes, take advantage of everything you can – academic, social and career related. Don’t be obsessive; just be aware of how the process works.</p>
<p>So I don’t need to worry about attending an LAC vs. a University or studying the liberal arts vs. studying a pre-professional major?</p>
<p>Well said, momrath.</p>
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<p>You can always look for career surveys at college web sites like those listed in <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a> . But only a minority of colleges actually have them specific to themselves and majors.</p>
<p>In general, it is a good idea to learn something in the various liberal arts areas (including math and science, as well as humanities and social studies that most people think of when they read the term “liberal arts”), whether one’s major is a liberal arts major or a more overtly pre-professional major. While some majors like philosophy and economics involve both quantitative/logical and qualitative/humanistic thinking, other majors may exercise only one or the other type of thought process, so students may want to be sure to get sufficient breadth in the other type of subjects.</p>
<p>But remember that many students choose specific liberal arts majors for pre-professional reasons (e.g. biology for pre-med, English or political science for pre-law, math or statistics for finance or actuarial work – though it is not necessarily true that the common major choices are required for the pre-professional goals that they are associated with), so it is not like there is necessarily that big a divide in the motivations of students in liberal arts majors and more overtly pre-professional majors.</p>
<p>Very good point, many liberal arts majors can be good preparation med/law/grad school… And I do feel like I will probably end up getting at least a master’s degree, just don’t know in what.</p>