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[PRagic]

Philosophy is actually a good pre-law track, so I didn't vote it to the bottom of the heap. I voted art history, although as some posters have pointed out, it depends on your career path and whether or not you get subsequent degrees. If you want to work for a museum and love art, what the hell else can you study?

English lit can be flexible and can work its way into PR or marketing fields, again depending on follow up MAs. One of my best friends from high school got her BA in lit from Harvard, then ending up going back to U of Chicago for her MBA when she couldn't get a job.

Some fields have sub-fields that make them directly relevant to business. Anthropology, phychology, and geogarphy, for example, all have 'economic' subdiciplines that work into global corporate strategy and organizational behaviour very well. Tough to discount them outright.

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Just wanted to add something to this thread, albeit through a TED talk. An FT buddy of mine has just forwarded a talk by Sir Ken Robinson in which he talks about educational institutions and the idea of educational hierarchies being the same the world over, inasmuch that some areas of academia are seen as being more preferential than others. He also talks about the idea of 'academic inflation' which I think many will identify with.

It probably wont change much, but it's made me re-think the way I assign value to subjects that I regard as being 'academically' important, especially considering that I voted for dance in the above poll.

You can watch his 20-minute talk here.

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[bede777]

I actually started off as a philosophy major. Trust me, it wins. The reason I got out of it was because I got sick of arguing about if I exist or not. That sounds very steriotypical, but it was true. I had two classes where every week we argued for and against existance. Finally, I just decided I had enough of formal philosophy.

[Omkara]

Philosophy the most useless? Hmmm. I got one. I found it applies universally.

Sure, it doesn't lead directly to a specific job. But it never antiquates. It gives one the tools needed to think clearly. And, thinking clearly, it can be used in conjunction with other training and that training will be augmented.

I've since gotten an MA in Literature. When I've taught English, Literature or composition classes, my training in philosophy has only made my classes clearer and more interesting.

Philosophy is also excellent training for moving into Law, Medicine, and any field which requires analysis of causality.

But if you want a cookie-cutter career path, I must admit that philosophy is not practical. One must be creative to use the degree to its best advantage, and that advantage is not necessarily implied by that acquisition of the piece of paper and those entitlements. Still, those entitlements do open doors, as well or better than other degrees.

For example, if the requirement is simply a degree, all degrees placed side-by-side, the philosophy degree can imply that the holder has a certain ability to think critically.

Again, I must admit that I have had to augment my philosophy degree with an advanced degree, and next a certificate. These, taken together, will make me very competitive in the arena of education.

I would argue that even a degree in Religious Studies can be a very useful degree, provided it is used wisely. It could work very well for someone who would want to do research in human psychology.

On the other hand, Religious Studies could be lucrative, provided the holder has certain rhetorical skills and an ability to gain the support of a congregation.

And this is coming from a militant atheist.

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