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Posted on 06/05/2025 9:07:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Your college major can play a significant role in the type of job you'll find after graduation and the amount of income you can expect in a salary.
But surprisingly, some of the most popular majors have high unemployment rates, according to data from the New York Fed. Majors such as computer science and physics had some of the highest unemployment rates, at 6.1 and 7.8 percent, respectively, despite being considered relatively stable STEM fields.
"A graduate's degree doesn't guarantee job security, and in some cases, it can make you overqualified and underemployed, especially when debt is involved," Kevin Thompson, the CEO of 9i Capital Group and the host of the 9Innings podcast, told Newsweek.
The national unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in April, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Choosing certain college majors could significantly increase your chances of going without a job, according to New York Fed data. While some fields may have historically been viewed as more stable and likely to lead to a lucrative career, the new data could shift the way students choose their majors now and in the future.
Computer science ranked seventh among undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1 percent, according to the New York Fed. However, it also ranked as number one by the Princeton Review for college majors, showing the tech industry may not be living up to graduates' expectations.
According to CollegeFactual, it was the 12th most popular major in the 2021-2022 school year.
The full list of college majors with the highest unemployment rates was as follows:
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All those tech degree grads are substituted by overseas techies willing to work for peanuts and practically all work can be done over the internet.......................
The lowest unemployment rate was for:
English, Nursing, and Education.
It would be a lot higher if many graduates of many outright propaganda courses didn’t easily go, as they do, straight from graduation to a job in academia or to some NGO pushing the propaganda they got their degree in.
So the indoctrination majors may have been in higher demand than majors for actually solving problems and getting things done. Hopefully that's changed now that Trump is in the WH.
Yup, from India.
I paid $2300 for a COBOL IMS course in 1982. Ten months and four nights a week. It got me into a six figure income before the turn of the century. No college.
But my friend, who I met in school, did even better. Like me, no college. But he parlayed it into becoming CIO of a fortune 500 company, and when he retired, cashed out over $9mm in stock options.
I like to say, “college is for those that can’t do it on their own.” Three of my kids DID get a college education - all in STEM studies. All doing quite well financially. But the one that did best has no college and started his own fuel business. Sadly, at 43 he was killed in an auto accident. And he left his wife $7mm and a beautiful paid for home at a country club.
And now add AI into the mix.
When your big corporations moved manufacturing overseas, people were told to learn how to code.
What are people supposed to learn now?
There are only so many folks needed for OnlyFans or ManyVids. LOL
American companies no longer like to hire Americans, specifically for any jobs that could be deemed essential or lead to a management track. Best to get 75% of the output at 60% of the wages. Furthermore, its a lot harder to threaten to deport or fire an American, since their presence in the country is not contingent on you working for them. The Computer Science number will only go up. Idiots developed AI that can write code, and now they are losing their jobs. Satya Nadella at Microsoft recently said that as much as 30% of their code is now written by AI.
Trump is ahead of the curve on getting manufacturing jobs back in America. Soon, jobs that require analysis and decision making will be done by AI, so what will be left? Only the jobs that the machines cant do better, faster and cheaper than humans. College degrees will soon be (more worthless paper (than they have been).
Learn to sell.
Because pretty soon that’s going to be the only way to make decent money.
Making them degree programs was a racket to get taxpayer funding for education institutions and to make taxpayers subsidize the training and vetting of employees in the industry.
This is disgusting. Apparently, there are a lot fewer DEI degree people looking for jobs, percentage-wise, than STEM people.
It’s deceptive. A women’s studies major working at Starbucks is not unemployed, but has entrenched themselves in a career selling coffee.
A physics, computer, or chemistry major may be seeking a career position in their field of study.
EC
Back in the 80’s and 90’s those were the ‘programs of the future’, endless needs and endless jobs opportunities.
They just didn’t foresee the influx of cheap foreign programmers and the Internet of Things..................
>>Satya Nadella at Microsoft recently said that as much as 30% of their code is now written by AI.
True, but M$FT has NEVER been known for their code quality.
I worked in a trade for almost 40 years and in all that time I was only unemployed for one 8 month stretch and I was still able to retire before 60.....just sayin’
I cant think of a single company that has the code quality that existed 60 years ago. People were a little more conscious about quality before code libraries existed.
STEM can experience some big swings in employment.
For example, in the late sixties, there were many companies interviewing at my university who would hire any/all Aerospace Engineers.
This changed by the very early 1970s where I saw advertisement that included this phrase “Aerospace engineers need not apply”.
My brother started his geology degree in the early fifties when demand was high. When he graduated four years later, the best job offer he received was a radio dispatcher for Haliburton.
My best advice for those entering the STEM fields is find the degree program with the highest unemployment for your major. Very few will major in those fields for several years. So When you graduate four/five years later there will be high demand.
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