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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2025/01/14/best-college-degrees-to-avoid-underemployment/

According to the data from higher education research group Degreechoices, these are the ten degrees with the highest rates of underemployment:

Criminal justice: 71.5%
    Performing arts: 65.9%
    Art history: 62.3%
    Leisure and hospitality: 57.6%
[b]    Liberal arts: 56.7%[/b]
    Animal and plant sciences: 56.3%
    Fine arts: 55.5%
    Miscellaneous technologies: 54.8%
    Business management: 53.6%
[b]    History: 53.5%
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https://www.newsweek.com/four-college-majors-most-likely-leave-students-unemployed-1972513

[quote] liberal arts majors had early-career median wages of $38,000, an underemployment rate of 56.7 percent, and an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.[/quote][/quote]

Liberal arts by itself as a degree is unspecialized and usually at a community college level (like the 2-year School of Liberal Studies at NYU). When people say they are going to a liberal arts college, they are majoring in a specific area within the liberal arts (math, biology, literature, history, etc.) not called "liberal arts."[/quote]

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