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Your liberal arts education has equipped you with the type of skills employers seek. Learn to market your Liberal Arts Degree. Additionally, the skills you have developed through your Independent Study are valuable to employers.

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Employers have neither time nor the luxury of training a highly qualified academic candidate in the necessary skills it takes to be successful in the workplace. What skills and experiences do employers look for? Learn More »

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Profile Elizabeth Wakefield '09

Having participated in Wooster’s Independent Study was truly significant towards choosing and deciding that medicine was the field for me. I was able to network with physicians at the Cleveland Clinic one of whom I worked with to design a study for my thesis. During my senior year, I had to manage my time between being on campus at Wooster participating in my course work and spending time at the Cleveland Clinic working with patients and running my study.