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It's either not considered a major or it's a part of the Liberal Arts degree path, like most math and science courses before specialization often are. Sometimes degrees for specific professions and technical training require a major, but they themselves are not majors in the USA.
A big part of this is lack of centralization. The federal government requires schools to have federally accredited coursework for tax purposes, and the accrediting process is done by several non-public entities, beyond that they can technically structure their courses, credits, and degree paths however they like.
For example, Physics and Aerospace Engineering require Liberal Arts majors like math and science as prerequisites, and the same is true for Commercial Art and Graphic Design's relationship to Fine Arts majors.
I am having a hard time believing someone would group Computer Science & Computer Engineering with Liberal Art.
It's also possible these computer tech majors are not as badly unemployed as the other ones. I noticed that while the chart includes the underemployment rate, it doesn't sort by it.
It sorts by unemployment on the left side of the line, it's just that the underemployment on the right is a much larger graph.
Yeah, well, what I'm trying to say is that the tech majors might have huge underemployment, but don't make the cut to this chart due to not that many who are completely unemployed.
I just explained to you that the chart is sorted by complete unemployment on the left side.
At my university you could major in Computer Science wither through the Institute of Technology or College of Liberal Arts. Slightly different requirements and you got a BA through CLA instead of BS.