Careers chosen by English majors are varied and diverse. Our English majors have gone on to obtain advanced degrees, not just in English, from schools such as Brandeis, Columbia, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Penn, Pittsburgh, Stanford, and Yale.
Based on information from the Alumni Office our majors have gone on to be an account executives, attorneys, assistant editors, public school teachers, advertising agents, professors of literature, actresses and actors. We count among our English majors an editor at Oxford University Press, a playwright, a researcher-reporter for TIME Magazine, a producer for CNN, a press secretary to a committee of the U.S. Senate, an assistant professor of art history at Stanford University, a reference librarian at the New York Public Library, a singer-songwriter, a production manager for Travel Weekly, a learning disabilities consultant, a graphic designer, a math teacher, and a radio personality, just to name a few.
Of the 390 English major alumni who responded to a questionnaire: