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Majors With the Highest Unemployment Architecture 10.6% Linguistics & comparative literature 10.2% International Business 8.5% General social sciences 8.2% Commercial art & graphic design 8.1% Studio art 8.0% Liberal arts 7.6% Fine arts 7.4% More items...

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I want to welcome all my new visitors to my college blog. Spend time at The College Solution and you’ll find lots of tips on finding great colleges and making them more affordable.

What college majors pay the most money?

What college majors are the ones most likely to lead to a job in this lousy economy?

Which college majors have the highest unemployment?

These are the kind of questions that parents and teenagers wonder about — a lot. Using U.S. Census Bureau data that was compiled by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the newspaper created an interactive tool that you can manipulate to find the majors ranked by unemployment, as well as earnings. If you go to the newspaper’s site, you can click on the categories to rank majors by the lowest and highest unemployment, earnings and popularity.

Majors With the Highest Unemployment

Using the WSJ tool, I looked at the 100 most popular college majors and discovered which ones have the highest unemployment rates. During the nation’s sustained housing meltdown, architecture beat out all other majors as the one with the worst job prospects: Architecture 10.6% Linguistics & comparative literature 10.2% International Business 8.5% General social sciences 8.2% Commercial art & graphic design 8.1% Studio art 8.0% Liberal arts 7.6% Fine arts 7.4% Film video & photography arts 7.3% Philosophy and religious studies 7.2% Drama & theater arts 7.1% Journalism 7.0% Journalism 7.0% Computer engineering 7.0% Mass media 6.9%

Majors With the Lowest Unemployment

Medical technology technician 1.4% Nursing 2.2% Treatment therapy professions 2.6^ Agriculture 3.0% Pharmacy 3.2% Elementary education 3.6% Special needs education 3.6% Misc. Education 3.7% Mechanical engineering3.8% High school teacher 3.8% General education 4.2% Health & medical admin. service 4.3% Transportation science & technologies 4.4% Finance 4.5% Physics 4.5%

Majors with the Poorest Median Salary

Many of the college majors with the lowest unemployment are not the ones that earn the most money. I’ve included a chart from the WSJ site below that shows the earnings of the nation’s 20 most popular majors in order and you can see for yourself.

Popular Majors With Poorest Salaries

The most popular majors with the lowest median salary are:

Elementary education

General education

Psychology

Sociology

Popular Majors With the Highest Median Salary

No surprise, all the majors with the highest median earnings require math skills:

Electrical engineering

Computer Science

Economics

Finance

Employment Stats from the WSJ on 20 Most Popular Majors

Lynn O’Shaughnessy is the author of Shrinking the Cost of College, a financial workbook that can help you make a college degree more affordable.

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