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Benefits of BA degree perennially questioned
By Jennifer Bach
Kansan staff writer
The question almost has become an annual debate among higher education experts. What sort of college degree is required by liberal arts or a professional degree?
But while experts toss the question back and forth, students are throwing in a few ideas of their own about what makes a better college education.
Everyday, about half of the KU student body are enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said Pam Hanna. She is the liberal arts undergraduate center.
Steve Muret, Oklahoma City graduate student in Latin American studies, majored in liberal arts as an undergraduate.
Edwyna Gilbert, associate dean of the college, said many students would not realize how important a liberal degree would be until they were older.
"I think a balance is important," he said. "In liberal arts and sciences, you are exposed to different ideas, different languages, different cultures, and you're taught more empathy for other cultures."
She said that many students focused
on a particular subject too early in their college career, limiting their spectrum of knowledge.
"College is the only time in life you have a chance to explore," she said. "If someone does want a professional degree, you can get it in graduate school or dual-email."
Gilbert said many students might receive pressure from home or society to specialize in a field that would lead to a job upon graduation.
Students with a liberal arts degree have a broader perspective of all of their options, she said.
Reflecting on her life, Gilbert, who obtained a professional degree in college, said that if she could relive her experience she would obtain a liberal arts degree.
"You can't learn too much," she said. "Even though a lot of the liberal arts information may seem unrelated, it is related."
"A lot of companies would rather get people who could do it all. Then they could train them the way they wanted."
Gilbert said students who graduate from college with a minimal number of liberal arts requirements, such as English 101 and 102, were cheating themselves out of a well-rounded education.
"A liberal arts degree can prepare you to write and speak," she said. "It teaches a person about philosophy and the art of writing." She adds, "from many different points of view."
Jennifer Peterson, Overland Park freshman, plans to major in business.
But some KU students said they thought a professional school degree would be more beneficial than a high school diploma and sciences when they graduate.
"I think it's better to get a professional school degree because it's more in-depth than a basic liberal arts degree," she said. "When you're trying to get a job it looks better to get a degree that's more focused."
Jeremy Matchett, professor and associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, said that neither a professional degree nor a diploma at his degree was better than the other.
"We could all use as much education as we could get," he said. "A liberal arts degree just lacks the specificity that a professional school has."
Lisa Gorsach, Leawood freshman, has not decided on a major. She said that a liberal arts education might make a person more well-rounded, but she thinks that a student had a better understanding of a job with a professional degree.
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