What Can I Do With an English Major?

The variety of career opportunities available to English majors increases every year. Teaching jobs at the secondary or college level remain important options, but for many other students English is an outstanding “liberal arts major” that prepares them for work in areas such as journalism, communications, public relations, business, law, or medicine. The St. Olaf Career Development Center maintains a “Career Advisory Network” of graduates who have gone on from an English major to many different kinds of jobs and who are willing to advise current students about finding the right career. To give you an idea of what that variety is, we list below the occupations of some department alumni on our current Career Advisory Network for the Twin Cities area.

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Department of English: Rolvaag Memorial Library, St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057, (507) 646-3200. Comments and questions can be directed to Department Chair - Mary Steen, msteen@stolaf.edu, or Department Secretary - Cleo Granneman, grannema@stolaf.edu