Career Resources
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Loyola's Career Development Center makes many useful resources available on their Website. See their page What Can I do with This Major? to view a chart of careers open to students who major in Classics and other fields. The charts are compiled by the Career Planning staff of Career Services at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1996. The page makes several important points:
Career Opportunities for Majors in Classics, presented by Career Services of Rutgers University, lists related occupations, types of employers, and some jobs obtained by Rutgers Classics graduates. After Skidmore: Jobs in Classics attractively outlines fields of work where training in Classics is especially relevant, and success-stories of Skidmore graduates in very many of them. Career Exploration Center at the University of Texas at Austin includes links to a survey of "direct", "less direct", and "indirect" career paths on which a degree in Classical Studies can set you - each with many exciting possibilities. On the subject of Careers, the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, remarks, "What employers appreciate is that Classics provides mental training in a whole range of different disciplines, and produces graduates of exceptional intellectual flexibility. In our world of rapid social and technological change, it is the capacity to react to new and unforeseen developments with flexibility which employers value most, and it is widely recognized that Classics and related subjects produce just the kind of graduate they are looking for, with an unparalleled capacity to adapt to new circumstances and learn new skills." Some things really never do go out of date! |
And then there's the paragraphs from The Princeton Review that Classics departments everywhere rejoice to quote: "We can't overestimate the value of a Classics major. Check this out: according to Association of American Medical Colleges, students who major or double-major in Classics have a better success rate getting into medical school than do students who concentrate solely in biology, microbiology, and other branches of science. Crazy, huh? Furthermore, according to Harvard Magazine, Classics majors (and math majors) have the highest success rates of any majors in law school. Believe it or not: political science, economics, and pre-law majors lag fairly far behind. Even furthermore, Classics majors consistently have some of the highest scores on GREs of all undergraduates. Shocked? Don't be. One reason Classics majors are so successful is that they completely master grammar. Medical terminology, legal terminology, and all those ridiculously worthless vocabulary words on the GRE (and the SAT) have their roots in Greek and Latin. Ultimately, though, Classics majors get on well in life because they develop intellectual rigor, communications skills, analytical skills, the ability to handle complex information, and, above all, a breadth of view which few other disciplines can provide."
This page was updated 13 June 2008 by jlong1@luc.edu.
