Careers in English
English prepares students to be innovative and sensitive professionals, who can adapt to changes in the job market. With creativity, cultural literacy, the ability to read character and context and to write with clarity and verve, English majors are well equipped for myriad jobs:
- doctors (English majors consistently excel on the MCAT!)
- social media and public relations managers
- copywriters (advertising and marketing)
- editors and content managers
- web designers
- diversity officers
- development, fundraising, grant writing specialists
- lawyers (English majors traditionally excel on the LSAT!)
- data analysts and archivists
- science and technical writers
Take a look at what businesspeople in tech, management, and other fields at places like Google, Apple, IBM, and elsewhere are saying about the economic value of the English major and the resurgent demand for training in the humanities:
- “The Economic Gains (Yes, Gains) of a Liberal Arts Education” Inside Higher Ed. February 15, 2019
- “The Surprising Thing Google Learned About Its Employees,” Washington Post (2018)
- “Shocker: Humanities Grads Gainfully Employed and Happy,” Inside Higher Ed (2018)
- “Liberal Arts in the Data Age,” Harvard Business Review (2017)
- “Six Myths About Choosing a College Major,” New York Times (2017)
- “To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf,” New York Times (2016)
- “Humanities and Business Go Hand in Hand,” Boston Globe (2016)
- “That Useless Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket,” Forbes, July 29, 2015
- “If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love,” Chronicle of Higher Education (2015)
- “The Triumph of the English Major,” New York Times (2013)
Recent graduates, of the English Major program, work in the following positions:
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