As a liberal arts student, you have learned to absorb and analyze complex material as well as identify important pieces of information while discarding irrelevant details. Through exposure to an interdisciplinary perspective, you can also evaluate a situation from a wide variety of viewpoints. Thus, your liberal arts education has prepared you to work in an environment requiring complex thinking skills.

It should be noted that one criticism of the liberal arts is the "impractical" nature of the discipline. In other words, it is sometimes argued that a liberal arts student is more capable of working with ideas than practical matters, and concepts rather than day-to-day concerns.

A liberal arts student may indeed be better trained to think than to act. For example, rather than just completing a project based on how it has been done before, a liberal arts student can process the information and examine how it can be done more effectively. Complex issues require complex thinking prior to acting. Simpleminded solutions to complex issues have never been successful in any field.

Source: Indiana University (www.indiana.edu/~career/students/apply/selling_liberal_arts.pdf)