Go to college, graduate, get a related job. A new report challenges the perception that an undergraduate education is needed to enter the workforce.
The Burning Glass Institute, a data research company, and the Strada Education Foundation, a talent research firm, released a study on Thursday that found the majority of recent college graduates, who got their Bachelor’s degrees between 2012 and 2021 in the U.S, were not in a job that required their degree.
More than half of graduates (52%) were “underemployed,” per the study, working in fields that did not require Bachelor’s degrees to enter, such as food services, office support, sales, construction, and retail. Moreover, 73% stayed in
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