One thing the article fails to mention are professional certifications and industry experience. I would speculate that the majority of those that make good mone

One thing the article fails to mention are professional certifications and industry experience. I would speculate that the majority of those that make good money with a liberal arts degree are compensated primarily based on either their professional certifications and/or industry experience in whatever industry they have gone into. If you graduate college with say a degree in Political Science or Literature and then go out and get a PMP (Project Manager Professional) certification and then find a good paying job after the fact, the reason you found good employment is most likely the result of the certification rather than the underlying degree. A better comparison would be to compare folks that got a Liberal Arts Degree + a professional certification versus those that just got the professional certification. I would speculate that if you mapped those two data points out they would be very close together. A comparison like that would call into question the value of that Liberal Arts degree. Even if you were to make more with a degree + cert/experience, what is the threshold that would justify the cost of the degree. If college was still affordable like it was in the 70's, 80's, and 90's then that threshold could still be low enough to justify the cost of the degree but these days with the skyrocketing price of college I'm not sure that it would still pencil out like that.