College Graduate Trends

Recent College Graduates Job Trends

• This graph displays the percentage of jobs with your search terms anywhere in the job listing. Since February 2008, the following has occurred on the website simplyhired.com:
  Recent College Graduate Jobs increased 52%.

• Between 1997 and 2007 enrollment increased from 14.5 million to 18.2 million, a 26 percent increase, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

• Only around one-fifth of all college graduates that sent out resumes were hired, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

• Graduate degree enrollment increased 67 percent between 1985 and 2007.

• Enrollment in doctorate programs increased 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, still a healthy increase.

College grads have figured out that a Bachelor's Degree and an optimistic attitude doesn't necessarily get their foot in the door so these trends have emerged in a broken economy.