I found a good report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Majors with unemployment rates at or above 5% Mass Media 7.8% Liberal Arts 6.7% Anthropology 6.6% Miscellaneous Technologies 6.4% Philosophy 6.2% Construction Services 6.1% Mathematics 5.8% Nutrition Sciences 5.8% Ethnic Studies 5.7% Fine Arts 5.6% Engineering Technologies 5.3% Earth Sciences 5.3% English Language 5.3% Physics 5.3% Information Systems and Management 5.0% General Engineering 5.0% Geography 5.0% Majors with underemployment rates at or above 50% Criminal Justice 73.2% Performing Arts 65.7% Leisure and Hospitality 63.0% Public Policy and Law 62.8% Business Management 59.6% Anthropology 59.1% Liberal Arts 58.4% Fine Arts 58.4% Miscellaneous Technologies 58.0% Animal and Plant Sciences 57.4% Art History 56.5% General Business 56.4% Sociology 56.0% Mass Media 55.2% Agriculture 53.9% History 53.1% Communications 53.0% Marketing 52.7% General Social Sciences 52.3% Political Science 51.5% Philosophy 50.9% Medical Technicians 50.9% English Language 50.6% Ethnic Studies 50.1% At the beginning of 2018, the median wage for those with high school diplomas was $28,000. The median wage for those with bachelor's degrees was $44,000. These are the majors that have mid-career salaries below $44,000. Early Childhood Education $41,000 Elementary Education $43,000 https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market/college-labor-market_compare-majors.html
Those majors are fairly high in unemployment, but fairly high in median wage both at early career and mid-career. Maybe some of the high unemployment rate reflects short job durations – like project work rather than permanent, and startups opening and closing.
I'm not surprised. During the recession, information systems had the highest or second highest unemployment rate at 11%. Architecture might have had the highest unemployment rate. IS is not as computer science or engineering, but computer science also had a high unemployment rate among recent graduates during the recession. Without any experience, it was hard to get a job. The city I was living in wasn't hiring new graduates, so most CS graduates moved away while companies imported skilled people from California. With engineering technology, the demand is probably for engineering.
