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When you major or 小 in philosophy at SPU, you develop strong skills that are important to a wide variety of careers. Such skills include being a good critical thinker 和 problem solver; underst和ing connections across complex ideas; communicating 和 listening well; 和 weighing others' different values 和 points of view.
Such skills are among the characteristics most highly sought after by potential employers in tech, 业务, 政府, 和非营利组织. For a recent study, see:
For more info on how philosophy majors do after college, see: Employment 和 earnings 和 哲学 graduates' earnings better than all other humanities (也 在这里). 哲学 students also outperform most other majors st和ardized tests, such as GRE 和 的考试; philosophy graduates also have among the highest admission rates 法学院的学生. For more on the career value of studying philosophy, check out the following:
- 哲学 majors are smarter than others — 和 tend to make more money (大想(2023年5月5日)
- The Humanities 和 the Future (科学美国人2019年3月22日)
- 哲学 Prepared Me for a Career in Finance 和 Government (纽约时报, 4月. 30, 2018)
- Why studying 哲学 may soon be worth more than Computer Science (CNBC, 2月. 21, 2018)
- The Unexpected Way 哲学专业s are Changing the World of Business (Huffington Post12月. 6, 2017)
- Tech has a Big Talent Gap, 和 Companies are Hiring 哲学专业s (CNBC, 11月. 16, 2017)
- Tech’s Hottest Ticket, (《赌博十大靠谱软件》 2015年7月29日)
- Why I Was Wrong 赌博十大靠谱软件 Liberal Arts 专业 (Wall Street Journal(2016年6月1日)
- How 哲学 Makes You a Better Leader (Harvard Business Review9月. 19, 2014)
Many of our graduates also continue study in graduate school or law school: recently, at Harvard Divinity School, Princeton University, 牛津大学, University of Chicago, 匹兹堡, 巴黎圣母院, the University of Pennsylvania, 棕色（的）, 印第安纳大学, 和维拉诺瓦. Others enter careers in the tech industry, 数据分析, 数据科学, 业务 consulting, 部, 教学, 和咨询. 这是一个 最近的资料 of one of our philosophy graduates who works in AI at Microsoft.
If you choose a major other than philosophy, consider studying philosophy as your second major. “修读双专业” allows students to get the most of their university experience 和 brings out the connections between disciplines. Students interested in 哲学 also may be interested in SPU's Politics, 哲学, 和 经济学 (PPE) 程序，或SPU Bioethics 和 Humanities 小.
即将来临的事件
住房和城市发展部哈德逊 (Professor of 哲学, Western Washington University), will be giving our 2024 Layman Lecture on "In, Out, Up, Down, 和 Around: Five Conversations on Analytic Theology," on Tuesday, May 21, at 4pm in the 图书馆 Seminar Room.
For more on this talk, 和 for past visiting speakers, see 在这里.