Major in English

2plus2
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:15:16 +0000

For what it’s worth, you can certainly major in English (or any humanities discipline) and go into business or onto business school. It’s what me and many of my friends are doing. If you’d like to pursue a PhD in English, of course, like MOST academic jobs right now, tenure track jobs are very hard to come by as more universities rely on adjuncts and the like. Also, as a professor, much of your life would be research, depending on where you teach.

Some of my friends who were English majors and myself are doing the following (one year out of college)

working in consulting

going to business school

going to law school

getting an MFA

getting a PhD in English

working for a publishing house

working in journalism at a small paper

working for a think tank in DC

working as a social media strategist

getting a degree in Library Science

going to med school

working in PR

doing freelance writing

working in marketing

So definitely a range of things you can do with the major!