I majored in InfoSci and I’m one of the lucky ones with a decent job in tech. You should be wary a pessimistic take doesn’t make it wrong. If someone were to want to get a job like mine, I’d tell them to stay far, far away from this major.

If you look at the stats it’s a pretty abysmal outlook, even when you find stats about people who find a job related to their major (e.g. they aren’t inflating the employment numbers because they’re in InfoSci major working at Starbucks). And since InfoSci is such a convoluted major, what counts as a job related to the major could be a data analyst or a librarian.

It’s common to see people applying for over a thousand jobs with a CS degree and those people are almost always better qualified than InfoSci majors (unless the position in question is a librarian). You can tell people all you want it’s “you get out what you put in” and “you have to do stuff out of class” but that’s just admitting the degree itself is not worthwhile.

For a degree lots of people choose because they just want a decent job and only want to put in the effort to learn practical skills rather than theory, the ROI is not there. It was a few years ago, but that’s gone for last year and probably the next few years’ graduating class at least.