Liberal arts like geography, anthropology and philosophy give you an excellent foundation for information architecture, business ethnography, user research and

Liberal arts like geography, anthropology and philosophy give you an excellent foundation for information architecture, business ethnography, user research and business analysis. A startup that's doing customer development instead of building something arbitrary should find those skills invaluable as long as you present them the right way. EDIT: I graduated as a Geography major, with the pitch being that cartography is a very skilled form of information architecture and interaction design, as we use maps both as art and as a useful, tailored tool; geographic information systems mean I have experience working with demographics, statistics and spatial analysis; multiple anthropology courses mean I can research and present analyses on both the developing internal business structure and on our customers; philosophy means I can think critically.