Unemployment among College Graduates, by Field of Bachelor’s and Highest Degree, 2018

Unemployment among College Graduates, by Field of Bachelor’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.