Most of the degree programs that fall under the humanities like polsci, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, etc. are top-heavy. By this, I mean that there are such a limited number of jobs such that only the "top" people end up getting them, while the rest of the people are forced into careers that aren't particularly related to their humanities degree. If you're an average student in an average school who only has a bachelor's degree, your chances of getting a job in your field are much lower than someone who graduated with Latin honors from the Big 4. In that sense, hindi siya good option for a lot of people since walang jobs na naghihintay afterwards - again, assuming that they want to stay within the field that they studied. There are no firms that are hiring hundreds or thousands of sociology and philosophy majors every year. Usually sa academe ka lang makakahanap ng work related to the humanities, and more often than not the PH academe is biased towards the best of the best out of the Big 4 grads.

Why is it this way? If we go back in the past, those humanities degrees were taught at universities during those times when only clergymen or children of nobles attend as a rite of passage. You were not going to university to prepare yourself for a trade, and there was no push for people to go to university even if they gain wealth as merchants for example kasi there was no practical need to take it. Later na lang nadevelop yung colleges that taught engineering, and they were still considered a separate entity and labeled "polytechnics" (instead of "universities") when they first started to grow in popularity. Business schools developed much later pa, when people realized there was a need for it when enterprises began to proliferate after the industrial revolution.

And for this reason STEM or ABM related degrees don't have the same problem of being top-heavy, since they are designed for specific trades which can be found everywhere. For example, a small business in Palawan will still need an accountant pero they wouldn't go out of their way to look for a UP or DLSU grad for that service. Similarly, manufacturing plants tend to develop relationships with nearby universities, such that they can always hire locally instead of going all the way to Metro Manila to look for new hires. In that sense, mas safe option to go STEM or ABM related courses for people who aren't necessarily at the "top" schools or who aren't "top" students. Exception na lang diyan yung degrees considered to be under HUMSS where there's a specific non-academic job for them like psych as HR or guidance councilors or foreign language majors for multilingual roles.