Business: The New Liberal Art
Interest in business is surging at elite liberal arts colleges, and schools that once shunned the business major are now offering coursework
Ever since fleeing Europe’s tyranny for the New World, Americans have established a collegiate system which emphasizes a broad, liberal arts education. Even as larger state schools mimicked European universities and offered undergraduate majors in vocational fields, the Ivy League schools and their peers, for the most part, resisted. “In America, we think more in terms of a broad undergraduate education,” says Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business (Tuck Full-Time MBA Profile). “Other parts of the world are much more specific. They believe in the benefit of students going directly into their major and taking several years of very narrow, technical work. We don’t think of it that way.”
But as the financial industry becomes an increasingly sought-after destination for talented undergraduates, some top schools are reconsidering that age-old bias. In the last three years, liberal arts colleges that once shunned the business major have begun making business courses available to undergrads. And with the job market in turmoil, interest
Once wholly committed to their vision of students well-versed in philosophy, history, and science, these schools appear to be changing course. According to Amir Ziv, vice-dean at Columbia Business School (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile), behind this shift in attitude is “a lot of demand from the undergrads to know something about business.”
source: businessweek
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