According to business leaders and educators, the liberal arts degree, with a major in history, is just as sure a path to success as any alternative. Large corporations are looking for individuals who are both creative and analytical for their management programs. GM employs over 1,000 history majors. For those people who are thinking in terms of graduate school, history is also a most suitable major. Graduate programs in history welcome undergraduate majors, and our majors who have chosen this route have been accepted by some of the finest schools in the country.
Law schools are also very receptive to history majors since law, after all, is historical in nature.
Graduate business schools strongly encourage history as an undergraduate major. The Director of Admissions at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management has requested assistance in recruiting history majors. Whatever plans students might have, the members of the history department are more than willing to talk things over with them.