The smartest people and the stupidest people study humanities. If you're very intelligent, you can do very well with a social science or humanities degree. In

The smartest people and the stupidest people study humanities. If you're very intelligent, you can do very well with a social science or humanities degree. In fact, you will do better than with a STEM degree—the highest positions in society are dominated by people with non-STEM degrees. On the other hand, it's very easy to end up un(der)employed if you're not particularly intelligent and got a humanities degree. Meanwhile, your equally intelligent peer who got an engineering degree is doing just fine as developer or technician.