I think it goes this way

• Least: Probably a tie between most liberal arts majors. I can't rank them, but methinks none of these directly lead to employable skills 😂 (which sucks because I think they are wonderful for a well-rounded education)
• Really bad: "Pre-X" (pre-med, pre-law, ...). The majors themselves are honestly quite adaptable to most white-collar jobs. But their fields carry the stereotype of requiring a super-advanced (often doctorate) degree, so probably high chances of underemployment
• Bad: whatever major that was previously the part of a boom/bubble, so currently probably stuff like IT/data science. Great all-around majors that probably suffer from extremely lopsided demand-supply after the bubble pops

My girlfriend has a BFA in opera.

There are actually lots of surveys and studies done on this subject by schools, governmental, and financial institutions. They all have a pretty heavy stake in what degrees loans are being handed out for and whether that person will be able to repay it. There's really no need to speculate because there's lots of data out there.

https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/5-college-degrees-that-are-least-likely-to-land-new-grads-a-job/91248833

The NY Fed found people who earned diplomas in criminal justice are the most affected, with a 67.2 percent underemployment rate. They were followed by majors in performing arts at 62.3 percent, medical technicians at 57.9 percent, liberal arts at 56.5 percent, and anthropology at 55.9 percent.

Conservation. They waited till I had already been locked in to tell me that the only work you can get even with a degree is voluntary.

My degree is "Technology Management" which is basically just the thing you get when you need a bachelor's degree but the specialty doesn't matter. I def wouldn't recommend somebody pursue it at the start of their career lol

I got my degree in Computer Science a decade ago, but never got my foot in the door. I feel like my degree is not worth the paper its printed on, recruiters only want experience, but I can't get experience because I don't have experience.

I spent the last seven years working an unrelated dead-end data entry job, but they kept increasing the workload until I couldn't handle it anymore. I've spent over a year sending resumes out into the void and haven't even gotten a single interview yet.

It might not be the single worst degree of all, but at least in terms of degrees you'd expect to be worth something, I think CS has the biggest gap between expectation and reality.

I studied Anthropology 😂

In before ‘gender studies’.

I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate how ‘marketable’ a degree is when that depends so much on where you’re talking about. There are degrees that are way easier to use to get a job here in Los Angeles than they would be in, say, Nebraska.

With current job market probably computer science among them. Depending on country even chemistry or engineering can be a fail if there's no industry for that. From my perspective you can start something and by the time you have the degree the field is saturated, obsolete, whatever. Employers can be picky as heck in this economy. Posting fake jobs isnt helping too.