If you look at the source data, they are referring to undergraduate degrees. The total number of respondents in the LIS category is fewer than 10,000. It's also not clear whether they mean that they are unemployed and looking for work, voluntarily unemployed (e.g., stay-at-home parent), or employed in some field other than LIS. Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science Louisiana State University 275 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225)578-1461 Fax: (225)578-4581 [log in to unmask] Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? --T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock" ________________________________ From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum on behalf of Gretchen Whitney Sent: Fri 11/18/2011 6:41 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: LIS majors have high unemployment rate? (fwd) Technical glitch. --gw According to the Wall Street Journal, LIS majors have the fourth worst unemployment rate (15%) among 173 academic majors, and the fifth worst median salary. Brief blurb from Library Journal: http://bit.ly/uATwm7 Bernie Sloan