Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.
Students resist choosing majors with the highest employability, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I get every one of the very few students who want to get a student license placed into a full-time teaching job well before graduation. It’s a career that gives guaranteed employment. But we attract very few takers. Nobody wants to teach in Illinois and Missouri. Instead, students want to go overseas, be it with Peace Corps or some other temp gig.
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Teaching does not pay $165k.
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It definitely doesn’t. On the other hand, I’d estimate the percentage of our graduates getting $165K jobs to stand at 0%. 😁
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People go with what is popular at the time, which creates gluts, and is a major reason for having to move someplace else where your skills are more rare.
I think this is going to be an issue for China. You can train a lot of engineers when you need to build infrastructure, but what are they going to do when they have built all the railways and power plants that they need?
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