Top 3 Degrees with HIGHEST Unemployment Rate 2026

Top 3 degrees with highest unemployment rate 2026 in South Africa. If you want more career advice, make sure you follow. Number one is administration. B.A. public administration, general management. These degrees have an unemployment rate of 24.7%. That basically means one out of every four graduates is unemployed. And the problem is over supply. There are too many business degree holders and not enough specialized. And then your entry level admin jobs are shrinking due to AI. At number two is your arts and social sciences. That's B.A. communications, psychology, politics and languages. And the unemployment rate in this field sit at around 17 to 18%. The reason for this is mainly because these are very broad generalist degrees. They're not very specialized and today's date employers are looking for more technical job ready individual. At number three, something that really surprised me is agriculture with an unemployment rate of 17.5%. There's just not enough graduate roles in this sector right now. And many of those individuals that graduate from this degree end up in roles that don't even require a degree. But here's the important part. The overall graduate unemployment rate on average for all degrees is around 10%. So you can see how these degrees sit well above the average graduate unemployment rate. So let me know what other degrees should be in this list. And for those individuals who are looking to get jobs, make sure you apply to as many places as possible. There are quite a few AI apps in today's date as well. Go check those out. There's an app called gothired.io. That's a really good one. So definitely go check it out and apply to as many jobs as possible because that just increases your chances.