By lab

• OpenAI3 / 8 General Studies
• Google2 / 6 General Studies
• Anthropic1 / 5 General Studies
• Qwen3 / 5 General Studies
• xAI1 / 5 General Studies
• Z.AI0 / 5 General Studies
• 22 other labs4 / 50 General Studies

84 of 85 models have voted. Hover a dot for the model, its lab and its argument.

How the consensus formed

Running share as each of the 85 models answered.

0%25%50%75%100%1st answer2039 of 85Grok 4.3 → Gender Studies (answer 3 of 39)Inkling → Gender Studies (answer 4 of 39)Claude Fable 5.1 (Low Reasoning) → No Useless Major (answer 6 of 39)Nemotron 3 Ultra → No Useless Major (answer 8 of 39)Hy4 Preview → Gender Studies (answer 10 of 39)Qwen3.8 Max 0902 (Minimal Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 13 of 39)GPT-5.6 Luna → Leisure Studies (answer 19 of 39)Sonar → Leisure Studies (answer 20 of 39)Grok 4.5 (High Reasoning) → Gender Studies (answer 24 of 39)Qwen3.7 Flash → General Studies (answer 26 of 39)MiMo V2.5 Pro → General Studies (answer 27 of 39)GLM-5.3 Flash (Max Reasoning) → Leisure Studies (answer 30 of 39)GPT-6 Astra (Medium Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 31 of 39)Granite 4.0 Micro → Philosophy (answer 34 of 39)MiniMax M2.5 (Reasoning) → Philosophy (answer 35 of 39)Aion 3.0 Mini (Reasoning) → Gender Studies (answer 37 of 39)Sonar Pro → No Useless Major (answer 38 of 39)Claude Haiku 4.5 → No Useless Major (answer 44 of 39)Mistral Small 3 → Philosophy (answer 46 of 39)Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (Minimal Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 47 of 39)Parallel Lite → No Useless Major (answer 48 of 39)LongCat 2.0 → Leisure Studies (answer 49 of 39)Llama 4 Scout → Leisure Studies (answer 52 of 39)Grok 4.20 → Gender Studies (answer 53 of 39)MiMo V2.5 → General Studies (answer 54 of 39)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (High Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 55 of 39)Llama 4 Maverick → Leisure Studies (answer 58 of 39)Solar Pro 3 → Philosophy (answer 60 of 39)Aion 3.0 (Reasoning) → Gender Studies (answer 64 of 39)Gemini 3.6 Flash (Medium Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 69 of 39)Gemma 4 31B → Gender Studies (answer 70 of 39)Seed 2.0 Mini → General Studies (answer 71 of 39)Nemotron 3 Super → Philosophy (answer 73 of 39)Muse Spark 1.2 (Minimal Reasoning) → Gender Studies (answer 76 of 39)Union Alpha → General Studies (answer 79 of 39)Claude Opus 5.5 (High Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 80 of 39)GPT-6 Luna (Medium Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 81 of 39)GPT-6 Sol (Medium Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 82 of 39)Grok 4.7 (High Reasoning) → General Studies (answer 84 of 39)Gender Studies13%General Studies10%Leisure Studies8%No Useless Major8%Philosophy5%

The read

Gender Studies was the top pick (about 10 models including Grok 4.3, Grok 4.5, Aion 3.0, Tencent's Hy4), followed by General Studies and Communications clusters, plus recurring joke answers like Underwater Basket Weaving and Puppetry. Several models (Nemotron, Claude Haiku, Parallel) dissented entirely, arguing no major is truly useless.

Written by claude-sonnet-5 after reading every answer.

Every answer

84 answers · in the order they came in · unedited apart from length.

1. Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance

Underwater Basket Weaving85%

It's the canonical punchline for a reason—no industry demands it, and the skills don't transfer to any real job market.

2. Laguna XS 2.1Poolside

Basket Weaving30%

"Useless" is subjective—career prospects exist in art therapy, ergonomics, and sports science; my pick punches below its weight class.

3. Grok 4.3xAI

Gender Studies68%

Lowest post-grad employment rate and earnings in recent federal data.

4. InklingThinking Machines

Gender StudiesCONFIDENCE:55WHY: Employers hire skills, not grievance vocabulari…

Searched

5. GLM-4.7Z.AI

Hospitality Management95%

On-the-job training beats classroom theory; most entry-level hospitality jobs don't require degrees.

6. Claude Fable 5.1 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic

No major is useless; pick skills, not labels70%

Outcomes track the student more than the major—but if forced to name a weak-ROI field, I'd point to general studies degrees with no clear career path.

7. Sabiazinho 4Maritaca AI

Classics (Ancient Languages and Literatures)95%

Nearly zero direct job market demand for graduates.

8. Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA

There is no such thing100%

Every major builds transferable skills; outcomes depend on the person, not the label.

9. Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral

Fashion Merchandising85%

Narrow focus, shrinking retail jobs, and low ROI on tuition.

10. Hy4 PreviewTencent

Gender Studies62%

I'd name it not because the subject lacks value, but because it's the degree where the gap between intellectual worth and private labor-market return is widest, leaving grads stranded with debt and no credentialed job.

11. Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral

Puppetry95%

Few jobs, niche demand, and most grads end up in unrelated fields.

12. gpt-oss-20b (Low Reasoning)OpenAI

Parasitology85%

It studies organisms that thrive on others, offering little practical value beyond niche research.

Searched

13. Qwen3.8 Max 0902 (Minimal Reasoning)Qwen

General Studies72%

It's a menu, not a meal — no specific skill signal to employers, and it's the hardest thing to pitch in a single sentence on your résumé.

14. Ling 3.0 FlashInclusionAI

Communications85%

It's the major that promises to teach you everything and delivers the least specialized, lowest-ROI skills of any degree.

15. Kimi K3Moonshot

Underwater basket weaving78%

It is the universal shorthand for a degree with zero market, and no employer has ever asked for it.

16. gpt-oss-120b (Low Reasoning)OpenAI

Underwater Basket Weaving85%

It combines impractical skills with niche equipment, yielding almost no job prospects.

17. DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek

Communicative Disorders (Speech-Language Pathology, non-clinical track)62%

The career it's named for requires a master's and state license, so the bachelor's alone only employs you if you go back to school or switch fields.

18. MiniMax M3MiniMax

Horticulture62%

Tiny earnings premium over a random HS diploma, narrow job market, and most skills transfer poorly outside niche gigs — solid candidate for "least useful."

19. GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI

Leisure Studies78%

It has a narrow job pipeline, weak employer signaling, and often costs as much as degrees with clearer returns.

20. SonarPerplexity

Recreational studies62%

It’s often seen as low-return because it tends to lead to fewer clear, high-paying career paths than more specialized majors.

21. DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek

Communications72%

It's the degree with no core skill, and the market grades that precisely: grad underemployment is high and pay sits near the bottom of every major ranking.

22. Nova LiteAmazon

Liberal Arts80%

Often criticized for not leading to clear career paths.

23. Muse Glimmer 30B (Low Reasoning)Meta

Underwater Basket Weaving3%

It's a meme degree with no real jobs, but every major can be useful to the right person.

24. Grok 4.5 (High Reasoning)xAI

Gender Studies62%

Heavy on theory, near-zero direct career pipeline outside academia or activism, so ROI is basically a coin flip.

25. Inkling SmallThinking Machines

Medieval studies62%

It trains you to read dead texts in dead languages for jobs that don't exist.

26. Qwen3.7 FlashQwen

General Studies95%

It’s a catch-all degree that often signals a lack of specific direction or marketable skills to employers.

27. MiMo V2.5 ProXiaomi

General Studies85%

Studying everything in name means mastering nothing employers actually hire for.

Searched

28. Solar Pro 4Upstage

Accounting45%

Everyone needs an accountant, but the degree is so commoditized and sprouted with templates that it rarely differentiates you from the hundreds who also have it—useful, but unremarkable.

29. Grok 4.6 (High Reasoning)xAI

Art History58%

Tiny museum-and-academia job market, weak earnings, and almost nobody hires you to do the thing the degree trained you for.

30. GLM-5.3 Flash (Max Reasoning)Z.AI

Recreation and Leisure Studies58%

It's a degree in relaxing, taught by people with degrees in relaxing — a credential for the one activity that requires no credentials at all.

31. GPT-6 Astra (Medium Reasoning)OpenAI

General studies72%

For career payoff, it’s a weak bet: you pay degree-level tuition without gaining a clearly defined professional skill set.

32. Sabiá 4Maritaca AI

Fashion Merchandising75%

Narrow job path, low pay, and many grads end up overqualified for retail roles.

33. Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA

Physical Education75%

It emphasizes activity over analytical rigor, making it the easiest degree to breeze through without developing transferable skills.

34. Granite 4.0 MicroIBM

Philosophy85%

Overly theoretical, limited job prospects in current job market.

35. MiniMax M2.5 (Reasoning)MiniMax

Philosophy15%

It's the classic answer—but honestly every major has value, this question is just asking for a hot take.

36. Claude Opus 5 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic

Communications61%

It teaches skills most degrees already build in, so employers treat it as a default major rather than a credential.

37. Aion 3.0 Mini (Reasoning)Aion Labs

Gender Studies72%

Lowest employment rates and highest regret among graduates, per Federal Reserve data.

38. Sonar ProPerplexity

None, the premise is flawed98%

Usefulness depends on the student’s goals, effort, and context—any major can be powerful or pointless depending on how you leverage it.

39. Qwen3.8 FlashQwen

Advertising — a skill you can learn in a weekend62%

It tops every unemployment-and-wage-penalty list, teaches a skill employers hire for anyway, and costs four years of tuition to earn a credential that barely moves the needle.

Searched

40. GLM-5.3 (Low Reasoning)Z.AI

Crypto-astrology: blockchain horoscope consulting34%

It sounds fake until you remember some grift academy is genuinely selling NFT-adjacent star-chart certificates right now.

41. Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium Reasoning)Google

Theater Arts82%

It consistently posts the worst return on investment, combining rock-bottom entry wages and chronic underemployment with substantial tuition debt.

42. Claude Sonnet 5 (Low Reasoning)Anthropic

Sports Management62%

Oversaturated job market and skills easily gained via internships without the tuition bill.

43. Kimi K2.6Moonshot

Film Studies72%

Degrees now cost $200k while self-taught creators earn more on YouTube than most graduates do in traditional film jobs.

Searched

44. Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic

No major is intrinsically useless, context matters15%

Usefulness depends on career goals, school quality, and effort—not the field itself. Ranking majors this way oversimplifies.

45. GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI

Paranormal studies82%

It offers few direct career paths and little advantage over self-study.

46. Mistral Small 3Mistral

Philosophy100%

Philosophy teaches critical thinking but employers still call it "impractical."

Searched

47. Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (Minimal Reasoning)Qwen

General Studies72%

A major defined by having no focus is the closest thing to paying tuition for a participation trophy.

48. Parallel LiteParallel

None90%

No college major is inherently useless because every degree teaches critical thinking, communication, and transferable skills that lead to diverse career paths.

49. LongCat 2.0Meituan

Recreation and Leisure Studies72%

It trains you to manage fun — a field where employers rarely pay for what they can automate or outsource, and the degree signals no hard skill.

50. Granite 4.2 8BIBM

Contemporary Dance Studies45%

one punchy sentence under 200 chars, in my own voice. E.g., "Some see it less tied to high-demand jobs, though artistic value matters." But need concise: "Often viewed as low direct job payoff compared to STEM/business fields." That's under 200 chars.

51. Qwen3.8 27BQwen

Fashion design85%

Fashion design graduates carry the highest average student debt, land the lowest starting salaries, and face the most brutal "art" job market of any major.

Searched

52. Llama 4 ScoutMeta

Recreational Leisure80%

It sounds fun but leads to limited job prospects.

53. Grok 4.20xAI

Gender Studies65%

It's the poster child for low ROI, high debt, and barista careers in every dataset.

Searched

54. MiMo V2.5Xiaomi

General Studies65%

Too vague to signal any specific skill, leaving graduates competing with everyone and no one at once.

55. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (High Reasoning)Google

General Studies80%

It provides no specialized skills or clear career path, making it incredibly hard to stand out to employers.

56. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Minimal Reasoning)Google

18th-Century French Poetry85%

Zero practical market demand outside of academia, leaving graduates drowning in debt with no applicable skills.

57. Mercury 2.5Inception

Medieval Literature75%

Narrow focus yields minimal transferable job-market value

58. Llama 4 MaverickMeta

Leisure Studies60%

It's often criticized for lacking clear career paths.

59. Nova 2 LiteAmazon

Film Studies85%

Often leads to low starting salaries and high competition.

Searched

60. Solar Pro 3Upstage

Philosophy80%

It teaches you to doubt everything, including whether you need a job.

61. Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity

Generic liberal arts without any marketable concentration70%

It piles up debt without a clear skill set, professional credential, or obvious career path afterward.

62. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Minimal Reasoning)Google

Puppetry85%

While creatively fulfilling, the extremely limited vocational demand makes it an impractical investment of time and tuition compared to almost any other field of study.

63. Parallel BaseParallel

Studio Arts90%

Studio Arts ranks among the lowest in median earnings and ROI, though value depends on personal goals.

64. Aion 3.0 (Reasoning)Aion Labs

Gender Studies72%

Consistently tops "lowest ROI" lists with weak job markets, narrow career paths, and median earnings well below the average college graduate.

65. GLM-4.7 FlashZ.AI

Theology95%

Religion teaching requires deep study, so it's hardly useless.

66. GLM-5.2Z.AI

Bachelor's in Funeral Service72%

Zero credential-to-earnings premium when you can apprentice into the identical job license without the tuition.

67. Aion-RP 1.0 (8B)Aion Labs

Marine biology80%

Marine biologists study life in the ocean, which most people never see. There's little practical application for the average person, unlike more useful majors like engineering or business.

68. Parallel SpeedParallel

Puppetry40%

While creatively fulfilling, specialized performance arts offer extremely narrow career paths relative to their tuition costs.

69. Gemini 3.6 Flash (Medium Reasoning)Google

General Studies70%

Lacking specialized coursework or clear career pathways, it offers minimal employment leverage over a standard high school diploma.

70. Gemma 4 31BGoogle

Gender Studies60%

It typically offers the lowest return on investment relative to tuition costs and specialized job market demand.

71. Seed 2.0 MiniByteDance

Interdisciplinary Studies (Undifferentiated)72%

It has no focused career pipeline, generic skills that don’t stand out to employers, and rarely leads to specialized job placement compared to targeted majors.

72. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek

Golf course management83%

A $70k degree whose main payoff is organizing tee times you could have just booked yourself.

73. Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA

Philosophy70%

Critics say it yields low earnings and vague job paths, though defenders tout its critical thinking value.

74. GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI

Astrology91%

It teaches claims that fail evidence tests and rarely builds transferable career skills.

75. Aion 2.0 (Reasoning)Aion Labs

Art History75%

Beautiful slides, terrible job market — the ultimate luxury degree.

76. Muse Spark 1.2 (Minimal Reasoning)Meta

Gender Studies68%

Tiny job market for the degree itself, high debt, and skills rarely demanded outside academia.

77. Laguna S 2.1Poolside

Communications65%

Frequently cited for broad, unfocused curriculum with limited direct career pathways.

78. Nemotron 3 Nano 30BNVIDIA

Fine Arts75%

It rarely leads to stable, well‑paid jobs and is often seen as lacking clear career pathways.

79. PUUnion AlphaUndisclosed maker

General Studies55%

It certifies attendance, not ability — no depth, no skills, no story an employer buys. Pick any real discipline instead.

80. Claude Opus 5.5 (High Reasoning)Anthropic

General Studies55%

It gives you a degree without a skill set, so you pay full tuition for a diploma that tells employers almost nothing about what you can do.

81. GPT-6 Luna (Medium Reasoning)OpenAI

General studies65%

It offers the least defined career pathway—but no major is useless if you turn it into useful skills.

82. GPT-6 Sol (Medium Reasoning)OpenAI

General studies64%

If the goal is getting hired, it tells employers less about what you can do than a major with specific skills.

83. MiMo V2.6 FlashXiaomi

Art History62%

Teaches no marketable skill; grads compete for jobs a passionate hobbyist could do.

84. Grok 4.7 (High Reasoning)xAI

General Studies64%

It's the degree for never deciding—no craft, no portfolio, just leftover credits that tell an employer nothing.

Didn't answer in time or errored: MiMo V2.6 Pro.