Computer Science Graduates Face Worst Job Market in Decades

**Submission Statement**

Computer science graduates are hitting **6.1% unemployment in 2025** while earning the highest starting salaries at $80,000. Meanwhile, fields we were told to avoid – like art history and journalism – have half the unemployment rates.

The numbers are brutal: CS ranks 7th highest in unemployment among ALL college majors. Computer engineering is even worse at 7.5%.

This isn’t a temporary dip. It’s the result of three forces hitting at once:
-AI tools replacing entry-level coding work 100,000+ tech layoffs in 2024-2025
-Universities doubling CS enrollment just as demand collapsed

Here’s the real problem: Companies won’t hire entry-level workers because AI can do basic tasks, but those basic tasks were exactly how people learned to become experienced workers. You can’t have senior staff without first having junior staff. It’s a vicious cycle that’s breaking the entire career pipeline.

For an entire generation of students, the “job of the future” became one of the worst career bets in higher education.

Of course. Software engineering graduates in an AI capable industry are just as relevant and cheap as fruit pickers of industrial agriculture.

It isn’t a bad thing. Coding is too routine to have any future. But the top CS are a bit in a better position, I guess.

Remember, the real reason they spent a decade telling everyone to “learn to code!” was because they didn’t like how much money they had to pay coders and wanted to flood the labor market. Whatever they’re telling everyone to get into right now, that field will be in the exact same boat in ten years.