Careers
Believe it or not, degrees in the liberal arts can actually make it easier to land a job. Each major within the School of Arts & Sciences carries with it a unique list of skill sets that more and more employers are saying they want. Across industries, employers look for a combination of skills, interests and values that match their own.
Prepared for Anything
Forget about scrolling through a list of careers students who study biochemistry and molecular biology pursue. There are no rules. If you choose a major you’re passionate about, you are much more likely to discover and develop your own personal skills, interests and values that ultimately, will help you find a rewarding profession.
Skills You Will Gain
- Assessing risk
- Using computers for computation/simulation
- Defining expected/potential results
- Preparing statistical results
- Evaluating effect of phenomena
- Attending to details
- Applying logic to problems
- Reasoning by analogy
- Examining components of ideas/problems
- Identifying and solving quantitative problems
- Tabulating data
- Maintaining precision and accuracy
- Determining probabilities