A liberal arts degree will now get you a job faster and easier than a computer science, chemistry, or physics degree.

STEM ded. 💀

https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-college-majors-anthropology-physics-computer-engineering-jobs-2025-7

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The upside:

STEM majors are more-likely to work in a job that actually requires that degree and they tend to make 🤑.

Expect salaries to come down, tho, since there are so many unemployed.

Why AI does a better job. A dumbing down or hiding something.

It’s the US that is dead, STEM was and will always be the driving force of progress.

I dunno, man. I know so many engineers and scientists making six figures, who are stuck in jobs because the market is so bad and pay is declining.

At the same time, I know so many employers who can't find qualified STEM staff.

Massive market mismatch.

hmm, I have no idea how to interpret those numbers.

How many jobs were artifically created to please some "noble" (government) policy?

The signal's been long lost by subsidies of all kinds.

If I had to guess, there’s probably just more of them (stem majors) and more fierce competition for top jobs, and they’re probably being picky about the jobs they take. There are fewer liberal arts majors and they aren’t picky; they’re happy to take a job as a waiter or a barista 😂😅

The standards for STEM have fallen too low. And too many STEM degrees that mean nothing.

I wouldn't know. Don't have any degree.

Cheap labor from the West. 😁

Unless you are an Indian to import into the US. 🤮

Cheaper labor. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cheap labor doesn't do anyone any good, even the cheap laborer.

Also, you only need stem if you are making stuff. No one is making stuff locally at sufficient volumes domestically.

The world is changing fast.

Economists still gettin' that gravy.

Not many engineering degrees listed

Nobody thought to click the link and look at the data? Sort by income and you’ll see all those “struggling” STEM majors have the highest entry level salaries.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major

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