What percentage of people with college degrees can’t find jobs in their field of study?
Apr.16, 2010 in
College Jobs
I’m doing a paper for English on how college is not always important for success. I would like to include a percentage or some other sort of statistic about how many people graduate from college and still do not have a job in their chosen career path. I’m sure there has to be some sort of statistic on this somewhere, but I am unable to find this. If anyone can help and point me in the right direction, I’d much appreciate it.
April 16th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
75% . believe me because after ur college u r going to experience it.
( I hope u never comes on that list)
April 16th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I don’t actually know if there’s a statistic on that, but I’m going to guess that its a pretty high precentage, as many people also choose to go on to get their master’s degree, which is also often different from their undergrad degree.
try Linda Sax’s book on higher education (it also talks about gender) but theres some good stats on higher education and success in general.
April 16th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I’m skeptical that there are statistics. To my knowledge the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics does not collect this data. However, you may find some academic research on the subject, Your best resource would be a university librarian who specializes in this area. Start with the reference librarian who can refer you to a specialist librarian if necessary. You also can probably find articles in the “popular press” which may emphasize that many more arts graduates are unemployed or are underemployed in their chosen career path than are engineering and science graduates. Good luck.
April 16th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
It depends on the degree. I would expect to see 95% for many BA degrees like English or Fine Arts to 5% for engineering graduates.