College Students Pursue Job-Driven Degrees
More American college students are focusing on careers. Their choice of majors is now being driven by career opportunities they may have long before they actually graduate. In fact more 2010 grads have jobs waiting for them than those who graduated the year before.
In 2009, two-fifths of all college seniors who applied for jobs got offers and of those, only 45 percent accepted. This year, roughly the same percentage of graduates got job offers, but as many as 59% accepted.
Many graduates in 2009 held off accepting job offer in hopes of getting better ones. Most of them were disappointed. This year's graduating class saw that happen.
Among graduates who landed the most jobs were those who got degrees in accounting, business administration, computer science, engineering, and mathematics, fields that are usually considered as job-driven. Fields that suffered the lowest job offer rates include education, physical sciences, foreign languages, English, history and political science.
More graduates will either be working for a non-profit or teaching this year. Others are planning to go to graduate or professional school.
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