"I was very interested in learning about international history in global markets and how they work together. With my economics degree, I got all of that, says Bill Kennedy, an economics major. "To better appreciate something that's going to grow over three to five years you really need to use a lot of tools that you learn in Arts and Letters. A lot of those skills in asking questions and asking them the right way come directly from my Arts and Letters background."

"A big part of undergraduate for me was trying to find a purpose," says Bryan Samuels, an economics major. "It was really through the time that I spent at Notre Dame that I found a purpose. The liberal arts education makes you think about the big world, right? Not just the one that you came from, but this larger world and it challenges you to look at it from different perspectives. So it has the power of not only making the world bigger but helping you understand the behavior of others and I think, in the end, gives you a level of empathy and intellectual honesty that you really can't find anywhere else."

“As a dual major in Economics and Design, I have fond memories of running from my Financial Econ seminar to evening design studio across campus. Though I still get funny looks from my Deloitte colleagues when sharing these were my undergraduate majors, it has become even clearer to me how the skills I developed in these departments are directly applicable to the work I do today. As consultants, we always strive to think critically, creatively, and empathetically about our clients’ toughest challenges. This enables us to develop and test hypotheses that drive actionable change across all levels of an organization. In these ways, and many others, I have been able to directly apply my Economics degree, and my College of Arts and Letters education more broadly, to my professional experience with clients ranging from privately owned retailers to large-scale government agencies.”

"Entering college, I wanted my field of study to enable me to develop a quantitative and qualitative toolkit to aid in understanding the driving forces behind human behavior, social impact, and policy decisions. Studying Economics empowered me to approach new kinds of problems with a logical framework, a desire to dig deeper into the “why?”, and provided me with the opportunity to apply my major to my passion for social impact through research with LEO and writing a senior thesis on the performance of socially responsible mutual funds. As a consultant, I use the skills I learned in the Economics major every day to approach complex client challenges with a logical methodology, data-driven decision-making, and an ability to effectively communicate results to a variety of audiences."