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Philosophy: What can it do for you?
Valuable Skills
Leave your preconceptions at the door! Philosophy delivers highly marketable, highly transferable skills. If your ideal career requires thinking, talking, or writing, we'll help you prepare. Bertrand Russell: "The Value of Philosophy"
The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to any line of work.
If you're getting a liberal arts degree, here's a piece of welcome news: you're actually in more demand than those who are getting finance and accounting degrees.
Your parents might have worried when you chose philosophy as a major. But a year-long survey of 1.2 million people shows that graduates in philosophy (Wall Street Journal) earned 103.5% more about 10 years post-commencement.
Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show philosophy graduates are in growing demand from employers.
Most of management theory is inane, writes the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead.
Courses like "Why Capitalism?" push students to ponder business in a broader context, and address a common complaint of employers, who say recent graduates are trained to solve single problems but miss the big picture.
In an era in which chronic unemployment seems to demand hard skills, some students are turning to an ancient study that they say prepares them not for a job, but for the multiple jobs they expect to hold during their lifetimes.
High Scores
Thinking about graduate school? Add up the three sections: Philosophy majors have the highest overall score on the GRE.
How about business school? Philosophy majors outperform majors in economics, statistics, finance, accounting, etc.
Need that J.D.? Philosophy is a better bet than political science, pre-law, and anything starting with "business."
Philosophers enjoy the best chance of admission to medical school of any major.
Big Questions
Ever wondered if God exists? If you have free will? If life has a meaning? Whether abortion/same-sex marriage/capitalism is right or wrong? What it means to be a person? If you should fear death? Consider this question: "What Do I Desire?"
So have we! Believe it or not, we've made progress and we have answers—lots of them—backed up with reasons. Come join humanity's conversation before life gets in the way and you die wondering.
From the website Why Study Philosophy.com