Hamilton College is featured in an Associated Press article titled "Over time, liberal arts grads show they can succeed in business" (9/1/08). The article, which appeared in hundreds of newspapers nationwide, points to the success of ambitious liberal arts graduates in obtaining good jobs after college.
The wire service story is based upon a research project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, that tracked Hamilton graduates over their careers in an effort to evaluate liberal arts education.
The article begins, "For a small school with a liberal arts bent, Hamilton College in rural upstate New York does quite well with recruiters, particularly from Wall Street. Goldman Sachs has hired as many as 13 graduates in one year, and there are always several picked for internships and jobs at leading companies like GE."
The article notes, "Daniel Chambliss… said these graduates sometimes take longer to get traction in the job market, but once they do, they often rise quickly as managers." Chambliss is quoted as saying, "There's a panic. They get out and say, 'What am I supposed to do?' But within a few years, a common story goes, they'll find themselves around a table with a group confronting a problem. Often, it's those with the liberal arts training who can best boil an issue down to its essence and advance a solution."
The wire service story is based upon a research project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, that tracked Hamilton graduates over their careers in an effort to evaluate liberal arts education.
The article begins, "For a small school with a liberal arts bent, Hamilton College in rural upstate New York does quite well with recruiters, particularly from Wall Street. Goldman Sachs has hired as many as 13 graduates in one year, and there are always several picked for internships and jobs at leading companies like GE."
The article notes, "Daniel Chambliss… said these graduates sometimes take longer to get traction in the job market, but once they do, they often rise quickly as managers." Chambliss is quoted as saying, "There's a panic. They get out and say, 'What am I supposed to do?' But within a few years, a common story goes, they'll find themselves around a table with a group confronting a problem. Often, it's those with the liberal arts training who can best boil an issue down to its essence and advance a solution."
