The degree with the second-greatest number of offers: economics. Some 61.5% of economics majors had at least one offer upon graduation. In third place: accounting, a major where 61.2% of students had offers before they graduated. At the other end of the spectrum, students who majored in the visual and performing arts fared the worst. Only 27.8% had employment offers prior to graduation. The next-worst: environmental studies, at 30.5% and the third-worst, education at 28.9%.
Here is NACE’s list of academic majors, showing the percentage of student applicants who had at least one job offer by the time they graduated:
- Computer Science: 68.7%
- Economics: 61.5%
- Accounting: 61.2%
- Engineering: 59%
- Business Administration: 54.3%
- Sociology/Social Work: 42.5%
- Mathematics/Statistics: 40.3%
- Psychology: 39.2%
- History/Political Science: 38.9%
- Healthcare: 37.8%
- Liberal Arts/Humanities: 36.8%
- Biology: 35.2%
- Communications/Journalsim: 33.8%
- English: 33%
- Environmental Science: 30.5%
- Education: 28.9%
- Visual & Performing Arts: 27.8%
Culled from Forbes News
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