Bachelor of Liberal Arts Puns

Hi all, I’m about to earn my Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Studies. I did not pursue finance, business or accounting. I have been a bank teller for 3 years and have recently noticed that I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I’ve begun taking on Personal Banker tasks as well as some light operations management tasks. My question is, with experience as a simple bank teller, knowledge of larger roles within retail banking, and a Liberal Studies degree, what kind of career would you suggest I pursue once I graduate and try to start climbing the ladder? I am open to going to grad school, if you think that’s necessary, however, I would really like to work through earning a graduate degree.

I wish to do a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, but I see that in most universities such as UIUC and the lot, they offer it as a BSLAS (Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts and Sciences) rather than what you would get with only a Computer Science Degree i.e BS (Bachelor of Science in Engineering). Can anybody tell me if there are going to be any differences between how people and more specifically, employers would view and weight the two degrees?

Hello,

Im a international student and recently got into the above universities for the given programmes. I’ve heard some negative things about York U’s life/campus on the internet and their 10% in international fee for the upcoming semester. I want to lean towards Queen U, however, I cannot find enough info regarding its quality of teaching

I want to enter a medical field in the future, but I’m still largely uncertain which is why I decided to apply in the department of arts

I really would like to know opinions around these unis

Here are some several reasons as to why I support a second bachelors in the STEM field if you are struggling to find a job.

1. Job Prospects Most STEM bachelors are going to have better job prospects than liberal arts bachelors. There are only a few fields that require any degree, and all of them have high turnover, no chance of advancement, or skills that don’t transfer over easily.

I’m talking about jobs at call centers, the insurance industry (notorious for all three), teaching English in a foreign country (experience is not really transferable or respected in the United States if you’re not interested in teaching long term), the car rental industry or any job hiring management trainees (good luck trying to have a life working 50-60 hours per week being paid $11/hr), call centers, law enforcement, or trades.

2. Grad school I know people like to throw around getting a graduate degree as a way to pivot out of the field, but that’s not simple. I’ve seen on Reddit a lot that people who have liberal arts degrees should pivot into an MBA. The reality is if you’ve been a cashier five years after college, no decent MBA program or even the awful ones will take you. Even if you get in, you won’t have any professional experience if you can’t get a job, leaving you in a catch 22 of over and under qualified. You can’t go into a masters in a STEM field without ridiculous amount of credits, or even a completely new bachelors. For example my school won’t let you do an engineering masters without a degree in an engineering discipline.

3. ATS

The majority of companies have an Applicant Tracking System. If you don’t have the specific degree they are asking for, you’re not getting the job. Plain and simple.

What are the job prospects like for someone with both an Bachelor's in Computer Science, as well as an Bachelor's in the Liberal Arts? I'm currently studying both at two separate institutions, and I'm wondering how attractive a Liberal Arts degree would be to a prospective employer.

For context, my studies in the Liberal Arts entails Philosophy, Theology, and Classics (the study of books written in Ancient Greek and Latin). There is also mathematics in the curriculum, with a significant focus on geometry and astronomy, and some minor art and music.

Now, on one hand I personally think that the sort of philosophical training in a Liberal Arts curricula would make one a better programmer for (a variety of reasons), but I'm more interested to what a potential employer would think of it, at first glance so to speak.

Is it a benefit at all, or would it actually be detrimental, and give off a bad impression? If you received two job applications with a bachelor's in computer science, but one had an additional bachelors of the liberal arts, would you favor one over the other?

How can I best present my Liberal Arts qualification, in a manner that appears the most attractive to a tech prospective employer?

(And finally, more of a lighthearted joke question: Should I list Ancient Greek and Latin next to all the other programming languages?)

I'm aware this type of question has been posed before. I'm aware a bachelor's in psychology was never the best way to go when I wasn't certain of my long term plans. Yet here I am, like thousands of others, and I need suggestions.

I have more than $50,000 of debt from my undergraduate education. I have decided not to pursue a master's for this reason and others that I won't go into for the sake of brevity. That being said, what are some in-demand trajectories that I could potentially begin to pursue in my downtime at my office job? Certifications?

I'm talking lucrative skills I can either learn for free from the internet or affordable certifications that can be pursued that will allow me to make more than the $40,000 a year ceiling I have with a bachelors in psychology.

All suggestions welcome. TIA

This is the path that I'm currently going down - Following a bachelors in English/Psychology and a first masters in Public Administration. For anyone who has followed the same path: What challenges have you faced, if any? What career do you have now? I can't seem to find anyone who has followed the same trajectory. Thanks!

Are there any master programs that will accept a liberal arts bachelor degree?

I left school about 7 years ago. I decided to finish what I started and my school offers bachelor of general studies degree with several concentrations to choose from, like psychology, sociology and criminal justice. The program is obviously designed for students like myself, non-traditional, for someone maybe with a full-time job. The program is very flexible, a lot of online courses to take instead of on campus. Like I said before, I'm not 18 anymore and really like to find a career at this point of my life. I just don't feel like going back and waste my time and money if I can't find decent jobs with bgs with concentration. Would it look less attractive if I had bgs with sociology concentration versus B.S or B.A in sociology?

Hello,

I am in my late 20s and trying to find my life path. I currently work part-time at a grocery store. I live with my widowed, retired father in his house. I rely on him for paying the bills with his retirement pension and social security, which he can do comfortably. Mental illness and apathy towards life prevented me from having more success/independence with my life.

I originally got into the liberal arts college of a 4-year university back in 2009. None of the majors at the college really appealed to me. Honestly, I only applied there because I lived nearby to it and my parents really wanted me to go there.

I took many breaks from college due to apathy towards it. I chose Anthropology as my major just because it had the most lenient graduation requirements. It felt like I didn't have the willpower/work ethic for anything more strenuous like engineering or computer science. I still feel that way. I'm not cut out for intense, mathy/sciency stuff.

Right now I'm at 108 out of 120 credits for graduation with an Anthropology BA. I decided late in 2019 to try and finish this degree for whatever reason. I enrolled in 7 credit hours for the Winter 2020 term. I didn't qualify for financial aid and it's costing me like $5,000 just for this term.

Right now I'm strongly considering just withdrawing now while I can still get the tuition refunded. Even though I'm "just" 18 credits away, so what? From what I've read/heard, liberal arts degrees aren't worth jacksquat and my career prospects really wouldn't increase with one. It just doesn't seem worth the time/money.

Problem is, what else am I gonna do? My dad isn't gonna be around forever. I can't pay the bills working retail. There's a community college nearby that has some programs. It would be cheaper than going back to this expensive 4-year university.

Any advice? Should I really try and finish this degree just to have "a bachelor's degree"? Should I abandon ship and try something at community college?

I don't know what to do! All I can say about career preferences is that I want to work in a temperature-controlled environment. As far as the type of work goes, I have no idea.

Currently I am following a bachelor in Liberal science and arts (LAS) program in the Netherlands. I did not know I was actually that interested in sustainability and wildlife conservation, so I just went into LAS and wanted to combine things. REGRET.

So, I am majoring in environmental and earth science. But none of my courses actually relate to what I am interested in and realizing how much LAS is too broad for me. Thankfully I am doing exchange at another Dutch uni, which focuses much more on conservation and natural resource management.

I am in my final year of bachelor and trying to think what I should do. I want to go into natural resource management but if possible, also combine wildlife conservation.

I have looked into industrial ecology but this requires physics and chem background (which I do not have). This led me to thinking should I do pre-master. I also looked onto environmental science master. I am not sure if I want to do that since it might be just more in-depth theory and less hand-on practical stuff. Every related environmental science master requires physics and chem background...

My question are:

1. based on my interests of natural resource management and wildlife conservation, what kind of master could I do
2. I dont have physics or chem background for environmental science related master, should I consider pre-master (how do I even apply for and how does pre-master application work, universities are too vague about this)?

For context, I'm a hs senior and I applied for a BA in CS bc I'm interested in doing a double major with applied math, and I heard that I couldn't do that if I applied for EECS. Also, I've been coding for about 5 years and have developed and deployed multiple products that are being used by companies and universities and I breezed through the AP Computer Science and AP Calculus tests and have finished multivariable calculus. Also, I do know some data structures and some algorithms.

However, I've heard about how daunting it is to get a BA in CS at Berkeley because of CS 61A, 61B, and 70, so should I be worried given my background?

Does this matter a real lot to employers? There was no other option at my school besides a BA. Now worried that I won't get a job in the future because of that. Lot of people on here have told me it is a big deal that it isn't a BS.

What are some good entry level positions? I graduated last December and I have no idea how to join the workforce with my limited experience. Full disclosure, I have no prospects and I had a 2.9 gpa, so I don’t think I have a lot of options.

I am very interested in geography and my gr12 geo teacher has made me love the subject a lot. I would love to become an urban planner in the future but I wasn't sure if I should apply to BA geography or BSc geography with that goal in mind. Any advice?

Hi. This is my first post here. posting on reddit with an intention of finding directional information. given my context above, i want to understand how to narrow down my interests and break away from abstractions to actionables. Anyone here with a STEM/Liberal Arts/Data science career progression?

Please comment below. ANY CONVERSATION will help.

I need help. time is running out. Thanks

Hello and Happy Holidays!

Im kind of stuck on the degree I want to get. Im staying with the same area of study though in Computer Science.

I finished my first semester with over 100% in all my classes. I am doing all my Gen Ed classes at a community College until fall next year which I will be transferring to university so I can get my minor in Japanese and study abroad (hopefully if covid doesn't screw anything up).

Thing is though, im not math savvy or no where near as smart enough to pass Calculus 2, which is a requirement for the Bachelors of Science in CS. I also don't know what specific CS job I want and I heard a Bachelors of Arts in CS is great if you don't know what you want to do for a career in CS.

And of course the Bachelors of Science in CS is a part of STEM and your pretty much guaranteed a job and paid internship. For the university I will be transferring to, 98% of those in BS in CS have a job after graduating, while 94% of those in BA in CS have a job after graduating. The starting and overall pay for a BS in CS is better than BA in CS.

So I've been thinking of changing my degree from a Bachelors of Science to a Bachelors of Arts. Is that in any way a bad idea besides being a slightly less possibility of getting a job or better pay?

I tend to overthink things and am having trouble getting started due to lack of direction (among other things). I understand that goals can be accomplished by breaking up the long-term goal into many short term goals, however I haven’t been able to successfully narrow down my long-term goal yet. It is too broad at this point. I’m not sure how to figure out what my first step should be and where I will aim to end up.

I’ve looked into Masters programs in Computer Science that include a bridge program for non-Computer Science majors. I’ve also looked into Bootcamps, but I have pretty much ruled those out at this time. I don’t want to let another year pass by where I haven’t made any progress on this.

Hello I am going to transferring from community college to university within the next year. I have calc 1 calc 2 and calc 3 and physics 2 left to take to finish my pre reqs for a BS program. I’m not really fond of math. I know I could do it tho if I applied myself. My question is do employers look down upon a Bachelor of Arts in computer science. A part of me wants the BS because I think the courses are more rigorous but I’m not sure. For anyone in the tech field does it matter which on you get?

I am about to graduate with an AA (2 semesters left) and I want to go into game development but I don’t know if my AA degree would allow me to get a bachelors in game dev. Anyone know anything about that? I’m so close to finishing so I might as well just finish but it’s gonna suck to go back and get an associates directly for game dev.

Is anyone as confused as me when making that study plan? Why can't an econ major choose mathematic subjects when they are pre-requisites of econ subjects?

Dragi moji. Volio bih ako itko ima savjet ili informaciju vezano za edukaciju u EU. Imam prijateljicu cija je zelja studirati gore navedeni bachelor, uze to bi bio bachelor interior design, fashion design ili visual design. Gledajuci prosto istrazivanjem na internetu ne mogu doci do informacija o zaduzivanju ili stipendiranju samo vidim da su izrazito skupe ove vrste studija. Izrazito je talentovana ali ne mogu nikako doci do informacije kako aplicirati na bilo sto. Ukoliko neko ima informacija pisite. Sretno.

I have gotten a 79.55 ATAR and can get 5 bonus points. This brings me up to a 84.55. The lowest selection rank for a Bachelor of Arts/Business is 85. Do you think I’d receive an offer during second round offers?

Any help would be much appreciated :)

Hi everyone. I am in a very confused place right now considering that my interests span across Tech, Liberal Arts and Business Problem Solving.

I'm 24 and in the last 1.8 years in my job, I have done everything from Data analysis, MIS automation, Predictive Modelling to BI etc. I thoroughly enjoy doing this but I feel like I now want to be exposed to different kind of problems(sectors/industries- specifically large scale behavioural data analysis). I thought analytics consulting would be the place for me, but it is very difficult to get in without good pedigree. I need some radically honest answers to the questions below, coz I am tired of listening to generic bullshit on the internet :

1. Where must my focus lie from here on? On getting a professional degree or changing from one analytics role to another?
2. For a professional degree at this point, I have two options: Either to completely get into the business side of things by doing an MBA or get into the development/product side of things by doing a masters in Data Science. I am not a professional programmer, but as you know, a wee bit exposure to data science is enough to get you intoxicated enough to imagine yourself as a game-changing ML engineer at FANG or other giants. How do i break this illusion and get to practically assessing myself if I have what it takes to get into AI/ML full time?
3. The choice of an MBA (with specialization in Business Analytics) seems like a no brainer to me honestly , but I somehow feel like this will become a bootcamp scene where in I will be taught everything I could have learnt had I just worked for a couple more years in the industry. Anyone who has done an MBA (ivy/non-ivy), please let me know the precise non-gloated value that it has added to your life?
4. How to keep from becoming a non-essential in this industry? I feel like currently, Analytics is overflowing with a lot of passionate internet gen folks who now see the true value of big-data etc. If you were hiring someone in your team for an analytics role, what would you be looking for?
5. How to keep nihilistic tendencies at bay ? I find myself just rotting in inaction because I feel like there are already too many people doing what I wish to do to the best of their abilities(or atleast they claim to do so on fucking Linkedin) and that no matter what I do, I won't really matter in the larger scheme of things(especially in this industry)

Thanks for reading. I rescued myself from the

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Im currently writing a bachelor degree about aerogel and im trying to map all the different aerogelproducts for building applications that are avaliable on the market. Is there a list of aerogel-production firms that you know of? If you dont know: Any comment with the name of a company that produce aerogel will be greatly appreciated.

I left school about 7 years ago. I decided to finish what I started and my school offers bachelor of general studies degree with several concentrations to choose from, like psychology, sociology and criminal justice. The program is obviously designed for students like myself, non-traditional, for someone maybe with a full-time job. The program is very flexible, a lot of online courses to take instead of on campus. Like I said before, I'm not 18 anymore and really like to find a career at this point of my life. I just don't feel like going back and waste my time and money if I can't find decent jobs with bgs with concentration. Would it look less attractive? Currently I'm interested in doing bgs with behavioral health concentration. What kind of jobs can I get after I graduate?