Based on data from the second follow-up of the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:08/12), these Web Tables present information on the employment, enrollment, and debt of first-time bachelor's degree recipients 4 years after graduation. The tables describe graduates' employment history and status after 4 years, their current or…

The Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) generated this sample from employers seeking college talent through their interactions with college and university career services offices. Nearly 200 career service centers from around the country invited their employers to participate in this study. Approximately 4,350 employers provided…

The Departments of Labor and Higher Education, working in close collaboration with the constituent units of public higher education, present this comprehensive report on the employment of graduates of public colleges and universities. This report summarizes the employment and compensation experience of students who graduated from the State's 18…

The Departments of Labor and Higher Education, working in close collaboration with the constituent units of public higher education, present this comprehensive report on the employment of graduates of public colleges and universities. This report summarizes the employment and compensation experience of students who graduated from the State's 18…

The experience of the classes of 1977, 1980, 1984, and 1986 shows that the college job market was fairly stable during this period. (Author)

Evidence reveals a slight shift on the part of young, college-educated workers toward technical, sales, and administrative occupations and toward lower paying service-producing industries. Whether this represents a permanent change in their job prospects remains to be seen. (Author)

Describes the labor force status, occupation, and graduate school status in May 1981 of college graduates who received their bachelor's degrees between July 1979 and June 1980. (JOW)

Analyzes the decline in the economic value of college training, using data from the 1969 and 1974 consumer income tapes from the Current Population Survey. Available from: North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; $19.00 annual subscription. (Author/JG)

The paper examines the quantitative dimensions, causes, and consequences of the "new depression" in the college job market due to the changes in the industrial structure and continued growth of supply. (Author/BP)

In January 1976, a letter and questionnaire were sent to undergraduate alumni of the classes of 1971 through 1975 to obtain information about post-graduation activities as they related to undergraduate majors. More than half the graduates who got jobs after graduating did so in areas related to their major and at a professional or…

This paper addresses conflicting views on whether there is now or will soon be a surplus of college graduates and other skilled workers by analyzing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Ten questions (and the answers reached) are addressed: (1) "Do the latest BLS projections of college graduate supply actually predict a bust--a…

In the 1960s teacher demand and supply increased rapidly to match the increasing school enrollments of those years in Pennsylvania. But due to declining enrollments and lower than normal teacher replacement needs in the 1970s the demand for teachers began to fall faster than the supply. Rather conservative projections indicate that teacher supply…

Major findings of the "Library Human Resources Study" predict the job market for librarians through 1990, including librarian employment by type of library (1978-1990), educational status of librarians (1982), turnover (1981), placement of master's graduates (1981), graduates of library education programs (1978-1990), and librarian…

Three out of ten college graduates and other advanced degree recipients enter employment in private companies. The document focuses on this situation and describes the characteristics of two cohorts of college graduates (who entered college in 1961 and 1966) several years after graduation (1971). The study is based on responses from 127,212…

These five articles present analyses, graphs, and tables showing important trends in the employment of college graduates. The first one, "The Outlook for College Graduates, 1996-2006: Prepare Yourself" (Mark Mittelhauser), concludes that there are more jobseekers with college degrees than there are openings of college-level jobs. "The Class of…