The number of students choosing liberal arts majors is dipping. At the same time, more STEM employers are hiring workers with humanities backgrounds, according to a new report by researchers at Strada ...

The achievements of medical students who did not take the MCAT and who had a humanities background were mostly comparable with those of students entering medical school with standard premed criteria.

A new joint major program at Stanford offers the liberal arts-inclined just that, integrating humanities and computer science in an experimental merger of left- and right-brained thinking.