Studio Arts

A degree in studio arts provides an individual with a firmly grounded experience in selecting, displaying and preserving historically valuable relics, arts and records. In addition, it helps an individual to develop strong critical thinking skills; experience facilitating conversation and presenting in front of groups of people; strong writing skills and experience adapting content for dissimilar audience; ability to find, collect, and evaluate contrasting data; and an aptitude for creative problem solving and decision making. The possible career options include art director, curator, archivist, art educator and so on.  

Studio arts majors generally study painting, sculpture or other media in order to become artist themselves. This career option is not exactly a full proof source of income. Studio arts majors lack a strictly defined career path. In addition, the median salary is way below the average for a college graduate with Bachelor’s degree and the salary growth prospects are practically zero.  

Liberal Arts

The wide range of transferable skills from writing and researching to solving and analyzing problems, and the specialized skills that an individual has gained through his liberal arts major is of little use, as the employment opportunities for a graduate in this field are few and far between. Even experienced liberal arts grads have to contend with high unemployment rate and low salaries. In fact, nearly one in ten new grads end up unemployed and three of every four end up pursuing higher education or land in a low paying sales or office work.