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New study shows architecture, arts degrees yield highest unemployment

Washington Post

January 4, 2012

According to a study being released Wednesday by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, among recent college graduates, those with the highest rates of unemployment had undergraduate degrees in architecture, the arts and the humanities. The recent college graduates with the lowest rates of unemployment had degrees in health, education, and agriculture and natural resources. Those with business and engineering degrees also fared relatively well.

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