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Humanities Majors Can Achieve Competitive Salaries
A degree in the humanities can lead to a high-paying salary – seven humanities majors have median alumni earnings of $70,000 per year or more with 10 years of experience. Philosophy graduates earn the highest median mid-career salary ($84,000), of any humanities major, followed by Global and International Studies ($80,600) and English Literature ($76,500). |
Your parents might have worried when you chose philosophy as a major. But graduates in philosophy earned 103.5% more about 10 years post-commencement. (Chart. Data.) |