📚About the Program
You have probably noticed that the world is changing very quickly. This means that when you graduate you need to be ready to embrace uncertainty, think creatively, and adapt to new opportunities. At TCNJ, Philosophy is one of the most practical majors you could choose in order to be ready for whatever is waiting for you after you graduate. Employers are looking for graduates with a set of skills that can be applied to any professional context—medicine, law, data analysis, marketing, finance, business, human resources, science, engineering, teaching, and many others. Studying philosophy trains you to question assumptions, analyze complex problems, and evaluate arguments from different perspectives. This skill set is invaluable in the workplace, where you will face ambiguous situations, complex challenges, and the need to make informed decisions on the fly. The ability to think critically gives you the skills to identify and solve problems, consider multiple viewpoints, and arrive at well-reasoned and logical conclusions. Employers value these kinds of analytical skills, because what they’re looking for is someone who can effectively gather and analyze information, identify patterns and trends, and draw meaningful insights from complex data, no matter what the context. As a result, graduates with philosophical skills are highly sought after by employers across a wide range of industries and professions. TCNJ philosophy graduates are doctors and lawyers, work in public policy and community outreach, are librarians and social workers, teach, are working in politics, are published fiction writers, and own their own businesses. We even have an electrician! And, of course, some are even college philosophy professors!
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