Career Potential

If the ability to analyze complex issues, to read, think, and communicate articulately are important to your chosen profession, then philosophy can help you achieve your professional goals. Many business and government leaders have degrees or strong backgrounds in philosophy.

Philosophy is not just for teachers! Philosophy is a traditional route to the study of law, and more philosophy majors enter the legal profession than any other career. In addition, people trained in philosophy are consultants and counselors in matters of medical, legal, business, and journalistic ethics.

If graduate study and teaching are your desire, you will be interested to know that the university has placed philosophy majors in first-rate graduate schools, and that one of these former students now has a position at Stanford University in California.

Philosophers study the impact of technology on our lives. People specializing in logic helped pioneer the logical design of the digital computer--the backbone of modern, technological society. Philosophy can be very practical indeed.

The following website of the American Philosophical Association has information for philosophy majors who wish to pursue a non-academic career.  The site has information, resources and background on options for philosophers.   http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/nona2.html