Unemployment figures among recent college grads do not support claim of STEM worker shortage
Unemployment figures among recent college grads do not support claim of STEM worker shortage
S. Krashen November, 2013
If there is a shortage of STEM workers, there should be very little unemployment among recent college graduates with STEM majors, far less than among recent graduates in non-STEM fields.
But according to Carnevale and Cheah (2013), for the years 2010 and 2011, unemployment rates for recent STEM grads, with the exception of those who majored in chemistry and math, are not obviously lower than in many other fields and are even higher than those in several non-STEM fields.
Unemployment Rates
STEM fields
Engineering: 7.4%*
Computer Science, 8.7%,
