The biggest challenge for English majors - and one I faced even in my day - is that very few jobs say they’re looking to hire English majors, even though a good English major would be perfectly capable of doing the job. Most of this is attributable to the rising cost of college, and students feeling considerably more pressure to major in something “practical.”Įnglish may not seem practical, but when you look at surveys about the skills employers want, written communication skills are always near the top, and while an English major isn’t the only way to develop that competency, it remains a good way. In truth, the percentage of Humanities majors (like English) as part of the whole had its most precipitous decline in the 1970s and has been on more of a slow descent since, from around 10% in the 1990s to about half that now.
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