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Unemployment among College Graduates, by Field of µþ²¹³¦³ó±ð±ô´Ç°ù’s and Highest Degree, 2018
While their unemployment rate had declined since the Great Recession, humanities graduates in 2018 had a slightly higher level of unemployment than the bachelor’s-holding population as a whole. The 3.6% unemployment rate among terminal bachelor’s degree holders in humanities compares to 2.9% among graduates from all fields combined. Education and health/medical sciences graduates had the lowest levels of unemployment among terminal bachelor’s degree holders (2.0%).
For every field, unemployment was lower among advanced degree holders than among those with just a bachelor’s degree. Among graduates with an advanced degree, the humanities’ rate (2.4%) was virtually identical to that of business and engineering. Education graduates had the lowest rate among advanced degree holders (1.4%).17
Endnotes
- 17Ibid.