[kddani]

Things must be different up there. Like has been said, liberal arts degrees are a dime a dozen. Maybe even 2 dozen.

Maybe once you establish yourself in a particular field you'd be more sought after, but there's no one rushing to hire liberal arts degree students out of college or even for the first few years.

No one told her to major in something she has no desire to major in. But she doesn't seem to have a clue so we're all giving helpful suggestions, probably more realistic than any school academic advisor or career counselor is going to give her.

Liberal arts degrees here are the ones scraping after random low level office jobs at a random business, making pretty low wages. These are general trends, of course there are always those who end up doing something great that they want.

Whereas engineering, nursing/medicine, and business degree students, just to name a few examples, have a much easier time getting jobs.

My brother just graduated with a business degree from Pitt, which is an okay school for business, and he had fair grades, an not too much in the way of extracirriculars or leadership experience. He got a pretty good job with MVR as a project manager and is getting great pay for entry level and tons of perks, and will have a lot of room to advance, and after he's done with their training program will have headhunters calling him right and left.

Even if you're not sure what to do, i'd probably recommend a fairly general business degree over a liberal arts degree. You still know how to read and write, but you have business skills added to it that are useful in pretty much any market and most job fields. I'm actually having some regret right now for not doing a joint JD-MBA.