Students majoring in English are prepared for postgraduate studies and careers in a variety of areas related to the liberal arts.

Frequently Asked Questions

1: What can I do with an English major?

Each year, about a quarter-million students attending U.S. universities receive an undergraduate liberal-arts degree. What career path does that begin for roughly 250,000 students?

Here’s what our 2006 graduates are doing with an English major:

• Attending Harvard Law School
• Attending St. Thomas Law School
• Earning doctorates in English at the University of Miami
  (and both received a full scholarship and a teaching assistantship)
• Earning an MBA at Nova University
• Working at a marketing and public relations firm in New York

2. What about last year’s graduates?

• A finalist for the Dade County Rookie Teacher of the Year, she’s an English and reading teacher at Turner Technical High School
• Teaching Honors English at Mater Academy
• Teaching English at “A” rated JFK Middle School
• Enrolled in the MBA program at DeSales University
• Enrolled in a graduate program in philosophy at Boston College
• And one of our English minors (Communications major) is now a CBS news television reporter in Fairbanks, Alaska