00:00the 10 highest paying liberal arts
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00:31right into it i've made several videos
00:34on liberal arts degrees
00:35generally speaking liberal arts degrees
00:37don't pay very well and it's pretty
00:39difficult for you to get a job but there
00:41are some exceptions and i've already
00:42talked about what i think the best and
00:43the worst liberal arts degrees
00:45are and i evaluated them based off of a
00:47bunch of different criteria all the way
00:49from job satisfaction to pay
00:52to you know how much future growth
00:53there's going to be to flexibility
00:55but today we are just purely going to be
00:57talking about which ones pay the most
00:59which ones are going to lead to careers
01:02higher salaries so the first one on the
01:04list is going to be a
01:06history degree this is one of my
01:08favorite subjects i love listening to
01:10history podcasts like dan carlin's
01:13now with this one you can expect to make
01:14around 45 000 a year in the first five
01:17years after graduating
01:18and then after the first 10 years also
01:20known as your mid-career pay
01:22you can expect to make around 80 000 a
01:26a historian with a master's level degree
01:28you could make sixty three thousand
01:30there'd be thirty five hundred jobs
01:32available and it would be growing at
01:33three percent which is as fast as
01:35meaning there's only one hundred jobs
01:37that would be opening up in the next 10
01:40now i'm not going to lie a lot of these
01:41liberal arts degrees are going to teach
01:43you some really amazing
01:44soft skills this is going to be things
01:48critical thinking creativity and on top
01:50of that i'm really biased here i like
01:52history a lot however i do have to say
01:54that there's two things to keep in mind
01:56when you're looking at these statistics
01:58one i think a lot of smart people tend
02:01and so therefore they tend to gravitate
02:03towards getting a history degree
02:05and so therefore you probably have quite
02:06a few people graduating with a history
02:08degree that would have been successful
02:10no matter what degree they got or maybe
02:11even if they didn't get a degree at
02:13all so you have to ask yourself here is
02:15this correlation or causation and the
02:17truth is it's probably a little bit of
02:19on top of that keep in mind that
02:21especially when it comes to the college
02:22degree and how much you make with that
02:25with a lot of these liberal arts degrees
02:26people do tend to go back and get their
02:28masters or their doctorate
02:30which means they would be making more
02:31money but they also have to spend more
02:33time in college and they have to go
02:36so that probably also skews the figures
02:37a little bit making it look like it's a
02:39better degree than it actually is
02:41so just keep that in mind as we go
02:43through this list next one on the list
02:44is going to be urban and regional
02:46planning so this one is going to be all
02:48about designing cities so that they run
02:50efficiently kind of like in sims you
02:52know you're going to design a city so
02:54that doesn't end up having la traffic
02:56now with this degree you're going to end
02:58up making 47 000 a year right off the
03:00bat and then mid-career pay is gonna be
03:03000. one career you could go for is
03:05becoming an urban and regional planner
03:06of course and with the master's degree
03:08you can make around 74 000
03:10a year there's 39 000 jobs available
03:14which is great and that means over the
03:16next 10 years you're going to have 4 400
03:18new jobs popping up now with this one
03:20especially to get your first job you'll
03:22likely have to move to somewhere that's
03:23kind of a populated city
03:25urban planners aren't really as needed
03:27when it comes to small towns so you're
03:29going to have to move to at least a
03:30medium or large size
03:31city so if you're somebody who doesn't
03:33want to have to move this might not be
03:34the best one for you
03:36next one on the list is going to be
03:37philosophy this one is all about
03:39studying the nature of knowledge
03:41reality existence and with this one you
03:45eight thousand dollars a year right
03:46after graduating and then mid-career pay
03:50000. now one career you could go into is
03:52you could end up becoming a philosophy
03:54teacher for instance and work at a
03:57there's around 23 000 jobs available and
03:59the mean annual wage would be around 82
04:02a year i think this is another one of
04:04those degrees where really smart people
04:06tend to go for it and so therefore
04:08these people would probably be
04:09successful no matter what degree that
04:11they got so that partially explains why
04:13you have such a good mid-career pay
04:15on top of that over 50 of philosophy
04:18end up going to graduate school
04:20obviously if they go to graduate school
04:22they're probably going to be making
04:23quite a bit more money
04:24and so that also skews those final
04:26figures a little bit
04:27but if you graduate with a philosophy
04:29degree you are going to be a
04:30very good communicator and you're also
04:32going to have extremely good reasoning
04:34you could argue that these types of
04:36skills are going to make you successful
04:37pretty much no matter what you end up
04:39doing you might not directly be able to
04:42from this but indirectly it will likely
04:43help you quite a bit
04:45next one on the list is going to be
04:48and this is the branch of knowledge that
04:49is going to deal with the different
04:51systems of government
04:52now with a political science degree you
04:54can expect to make forty seven thousand
04:56dollars a year starting out
04:57and mid career pay is eighty nine
04:59thousand as a political scientist with a
05:01master's degree you can make around a
05:03hundred and twenty two thousand a year
05:04there's seven thousand jobs available
05:06that's growing at six percent which is
05:08faster than average but that only
05:10means there's going to be 400 new jobs
05:11opening up in the next 10 years
05:13however there are a ton of different
05:15options for you you can work in a state
05:17and local government you can work for
05:18the federal government you can work for
05:21you could work directly for a campaign
05:24now with this degree like a lot of other
05:26degrees it is moving towards being more
05:28of an analytical type degree
05:29so it would be a very good idea for you
05:31to study statistics and maybe even a
05:33little bit of computer programming
05:35next on the list is going to be an
05:36international relations degree and this
05:39one is going to be all about studying
05:42it's the study of politics law and
05:44economics on a global
05:45level with this degree you can expect to
05:49a year starting out and mid-career pay
05:52000. now this is another one where you
05:53could become a political scientist for
05:56with this one i think it could be really
05:58good especially if you use this one as a
06:00double major with another degree that's
06:02and it can also be good if you plan
06:04ahead really well you know
06:06exactly what career you're going into
06:07let's say you want to be somebody who is
06:10for you know russian businesses that are
06:13working with businesses in the united
06:15you know exactly what you want to do you
06:17know exactly what skills you need to
06:19you know exactly what career path you
06:20have to take in order to get to your
06:22this can be a really good one for you
06:24now you would likely be spending a lot
06:26of time in whatever country that you are
06:28going to specialize in so
06:30you would probably want to either at
06:31least learn the culture if not straight
06:34the language and make sure to travel to
06:36the country and spend quite a bit of
06:37time there because when you start
06:38working you'll likely be spending
06:40even more time next one on the list is
06:42going to be agricultural economics so
06:45this one is going to be economics but
06:46it's going to specialize in the
06:47distribution of food with this degree
06:49you can expect to make around 53
06:51000 a year starting out and 99 000 in
06:55this is one where you could become a
06:56type of economist for instance and
06:58economists with a master's level degree
07:00earn about a hundred and five thousand
07:02dollars a year there's 20 000 jobs
07:05it's growing at 14 which is great but
07:07unfortunately that's only going to lead
07:08to about 2 900 more jobs in the next 10
07:12this is one where along with your
07:14economics education you're going to want
07:15to spend a lot of time
07:17you know working with spreadsheets for
07:18instance working with statistics maybe
07:20even learning a little bit of computer
07:23but it can be a really good one if you
07:24plan it out next one on the list is
07:26going to be government and this one is
07:28pretty similar to political science
07:30government focuses more on the actual
07:32structure of the government itself so
07:34they're going to look at all the way
07:35from the highest level you know the
07:37the executive branch down to the very
07:39lowest levels your state your local
07:41government and with this degree you can
07:44000 a year and mid-career pay is going
07:47000. this is another one where you could
07:49become a political scientist and with a
07:51master's degree you could expect to make
07:52around 122 000 a year this is a very
07:56so realistically speaking these
07:58statistics could be way off just because
08:00of the fact that there's not enough of a
08:01sample size to get a really accurate
08:03number next one on the list is going to
08:05be rhetoric and rhetoric is basically
08:07all about the art of persuasion through
08:11usually this focus is on written
08:13communication but it can basically just
08:14be any type of communication with this
08:16degree you're gonna make around forty
08:18nine thousand dollars a year starting
08:19out and mid career pay is going to be a
08:21hundred and four thousand now there's
08:23actually a lot of different career paths
08:24you could go down with this you could go
08:27sales all kinds of different things you
08:28could also go into copywriting
08:30one career path you could go down is
08:32becoming a technical writer but it's
08:33kind of a copywriting type of writer
08:35because of the fact you'd be working in
08:38industries where they do require kind of
08:40high level technical skill when it comes
08:42to writing so you have to be able to
08:44sell something but at the same time
08:45write in a high level technical way
08:47technical writers make around 72
08:49thousand dollars a year
08:50there's 58 000 jobs available and it's
08:52growing at seven percent which is faster
08:54than average meaning over the next 10
08:56years there's going to be about 4 300
08:57jobs that open up this is another one
08:59where there's not that many people
09:00graduating every single year with a
09:02rhetoric degree with that being said
09:04people who do graduate end up doing
09:06it's a little bit too specific for my
09:08taste though i think there would be
09:10if you want to go into marketing for
09:12instance you could get a marketing
09:13degree or an mba degree or even a
09:15communications degree would probably be
09:17better than rhetoric
09:18just because of the fact that if
09:20anything goes wrong all three of those
09:22types of degrees are going to be much
09:23more flexible next one on the list is
09:25going to be economics which is the study
09:26of wealth and how it's distributed
09:28within a country with an economics
09:30degree you can expect to make around 58
09:32000 a year starting out and 109 000 in
09:36there's actually a lot of different
09:37areas that you can go into with an
09:39economics degree it's pretty flexible
09:41for instance you could become a
09:42financial manager and they make around
09:46a year there's 697 000 jobs available
09:49and it's growing at 15
09:51which is much faster than average and
09:53that means there's over a hundred
09:54thousand jobs opening up in the next 10
09:57the one thing i will say about economics
09:59is you want to make sure that you
10:01supplement it with some other skills
10:03so i would recommend maybe taking other
10:06mathematics statistics maybe even a
10:08little bit of computer programming just
10:10to supplement your economics knowledge
10:12it might be a little bit difficult for
10:13you to get your very first job after
10:15college compared to something like
10:17business or technology for instance
10:19but once you get that first job you get
10:21your foot in the door it's basically
10:22going to be smooth sailing after that
10:24next one on the list is going to be a
10:26political economy degree now political
10:28economy is going to be the study of
10:30production and trade as well as the
10:32relationship with law
10:34customs and economics and government
10:36with this degree you can expect to make
10:38around fifty eight thousand dollars a
10:39year starting out and mid-career pay is
10:41a hundred and twenty-five thousand
10:43you could end up becoming an economist
10:45for instance with a master's level
10:46degree making 105 000 a year with 20
10:49000 jobs available and it growing around
10:5114 which is much faster than average
10:54this one is basically just a political
10:56science degree mixed with an economics
10:57degree and that can be really good
10:59depending on what you want to do
11:00the big thing here and this is kind of a
11:02common theme with a bunch of these
11:04is you need to supplement your knowledge
11:05with some math skills or some statistics
11:07skills or something along those lines
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