The Most Regretted College Majors

According to a new report from ZipRecruiter, about one in five recent graduates regret their major.

The research includes a survey of 15-hundred graduates from the class of 2025 and 15-hundred college students set to graduate this spring.

So, which majors did people regret most? Liberal arts, as many who studied that wish they’d pursued a scientific or quantitative field, according to ZipRecruiter.
The fields with the highest regret from recent grads are political science, international relations and public policy. Nearly half (46.3%) of those majors aren’t satisfied with their choice, the job site finds.
Communications, media studies and public relations majors are a close second, as 39.2% of them regret their decision.
But it’s not just liberal arts grads having second thoughts, a third of physical science majors - those who majored in physics, chemistry or earth sciences - do too.
Struggling to find a job is part of the reason they regret what they studied, but finding out jobs in their field pay less than expected is also driving regret.
That’s especially true for those who studied public health or health administration, as the pay they got after landing a job was an average of 43.8% lower than expected, according to the study. Agriculture, environmental science, English, and journalism majors found pay was 30% less than they thought it would be in their post-grad job.

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