China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay

theodp writes "The WSJ reports that China's Ministry of Education plans to phase out majors producing unemployable graduates. The government will soon start evaluating college majors by their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which more than 60% of graduates fail for two consecutive years to find work. What if the U.S. government were to adopt China's approach? According to the most recent U.S. census data, among the first majors to go: psychology, U.S. history and military technologies. Lest you computer programmers get too smug, consider this."

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The US fields with highest unemployment

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the link in TFA, the US majors with the highest unemployment rates are

• Psychology, 19.5%
• Fine arts, 16.2%
• US history, 15.1%
• Library science, 15%
• Educational psychology, 10.9%

The first computer-related field is "computer administration management and security" at 9.5%. Whatever the heck that is - sounds like a wannabe-degree.

Anyhow, it's an interesting table, because you can sort by unemployment, earnings or popularity...