<p>Accounting:
You will always need accountants to count money in bad or good time
You will always need them to audit a firm during recession or inflation
You will always need to file tax return in bad or good time</p>
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<p>That person can become a feminist after graduation, then marry a rich man and set the record as a gold digger. High pay ! right?</p>
<p>hebrew studies</p>
<p>1-Major in French and Finance
2-Change your last name to Tourre
3-Change your first name to Fabuleux
4-Land a job in an Investment Banking firm
5-Set your client’s portfolio for failure
6- Drive your company to bankruptcy
7-Wait for your high bonus and high compensation packages
8-You will get grilled by Congress but it will be all scipted
9- Pray the Wall Street God
10- Proof: Look at Wall Street</p>
<p>Just to spur conversation, here’s a portion of a job listing from my College’s internship database:</p>
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<p>Sorry anarchist, classicists don’t know math. Thus, they are stupid and belong at McDonald’s. END OF STORY.</p>
<p>be an undertaker/grave digger, economies rise and fall but people always die</p>
<p>Engineering. </p>
<p>Computer Engineering is numero uno =)</p>
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<p>notice the keywords “small”, “part-time”, and “intern”. I don’t see anything alluding to plentiful, fulltime employment. Liberal arts is slowly dying. Employers don’t want it and some colleges are beginning to drop liberal arts degrees. Put aside the data/web articles to try to argue about it. From a common sense standpoint, knowing latin or knowing how european renaissance society worked is not something employers are looking for. It is important to find a major that is interesting and practical at the same time to the individual.</p>
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<p>There are a variety of majors you can study that won’t lead to good employment on their own merit. There’s actually a group of people out there that are against the idea of “vocational” degrees/majors in undergraduate school. School should just be a place for learning. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think Liberal arts is in any danger of dying out, but I don’t think it’s terribly marketable for someone who wants to use their college degree to make a living. When I mean marketable I mean.</p>
<p>1: Flexibility in the types of work one can do with said degree.
2: Above average pay, as compared to the general population, for said work.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>People with liberal arts degrees catch up with those with pre-professional degrees later in life. Also, liberal arts includes sciences and math degrees, which have different career prospects and options than humanities degrees.</p>
<p>And before anyone mentions it, people without humanities degrees are not, in fact, completely devoid of all critical thinking skills.</p>
<p>but someone with a liberal arts degree will still need additional training to be an engineer/architect for example</p>
<p>I agree your undergrad major doesn’t become a concern if you decide to go to grad school or professional school. But ending education at the undergrad level with only a liberal arts/humanities major is not a practical idea. </p>
<p>I don’t know why some of you keep insisting that liberal arts majors as a whole are indemand and marketable. There is absolutely nothing that points to anything that they are really good. Offer evidence…</p>
<p>Mike, school should NOT just be a place to learn. While that is a very noble idea, people don’t shell out tons of money just to learn stuff. College is a place where you learn the skillset that you use to make a living out of for the rest of your life. I already said that a major/field should be considered in both practicality and enjoyment, not just one of these.</p>
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<p>That’s the fundamental debate on this thread: One group considers college to be a place of learning and education, simply for the intrinsic nature of knowledge. The other says it’s a place where you get skills for later on in your career.
Neither is a wrong answer, but the former group is usually the kind that goes for a liberal arts degree and the latter is the type to go into a STEM field.</p>
<p>oops I didn’t mean to offer such a polarized opinion. I mean to say that college is a place for BOTH learning and acquiring career skills. This is not an either-or thing.</p>
<p>I hope they drop ******** liberal arts degrees, then we can all be diligent little worker bees typing in code 9 to 5 so that we can go buy the latest ipod. Hey, it’s practical.</p>
<p>Honestly, the society you people want to create sounds ****ing hellish.</p>
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<p>Of course S and M are liberal arts.</p>
<p>When I attended the “Campus Preview Weekend” at MIT with DD one thing really stood out to me while attending the presentation for course 6 (EECS).</p>
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<p>I think that is the essence why you need to go to college and what prospective employer look for when hiring.</p>
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<li><p>Engineering/Computer Sciences</p></li>
<li><p>Nursing</p></li>
<li><p>Accounting/Finance/Business</p></li>
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<p>I agree, that’s something student’s don’t always understand going into college. Don’t look it as merely training for a particular job, rather think of it as a way to expand the mind, experience different POV, as well as thinking “out of the box” to solve problems.</p>
<p>Getting back to earth, not everyone has the luxury of going to college just to learn, as such people try to do both. Learn new ways of looking at and solving problems, as well as attaining the proper knowledge to perform a particular line of work.</p>
<p>The tricky part is identifying what the combination should be. How does one balance learning with practical job skills training? This is part of the reasoning that lead me to ask “which major is most marketable”, meaning which major would provide the best/good tool set to enter the job market. I suppose the question is really broader than that, but figured the simpler the question the more feedback. :)</p>
<p>Mike</p>