After college
Career planning
- The Philosophy Major's Career Guide(Southeast Missouri State University)
Graduate and professional schools
- Philosophy majors outperform all other majors on the GRE Verbal.
- Philosophy majors outperform all other majors except one on the LSAT.
- Philosophy majors outperform all humanities majors on the GRE Quantitative.
- Philosophy majors outperform all other majors on the GRE Analytic Writing.
- Philosophy majors outperform all business majors on the GMAT.
- Philosophy majors have the third highest acceptance rate to medical school.
Business
- ŇIf you want to succeed in business, donŐt get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead. The Management Myth, (The Atlantic Monthly, June 2006.)
- I Think Therefore I Earn Guardian (UK)
- "Top Students Commit to Using Their Knowledge" USA Today, Feb. 11 2004
- "To Beat the Market Hire a Philosopher" MUTUAL FUNDS REPORT New York Times January 10, 1999.
- "For all the jokes about them, philosophy majors appear to do remarkably well " Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life and in Work" New York Times Dec. 26, 1997.
- "Once hired, philosophy majors advance more rapidly than their colleagues who possess only business degrees,
"How to Get to the Top: Study Philosophy," Thomas Hurka. 1990. (http://www.thereitis.org/?p=633) - The Head of Technical Analysis and Strategy at Barkclay's Bank explains why philosophy is helpful Link