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In 2008, the unemployment rate of graduates was more than 30%. [32] In this year the unemployment rate of graduates from top universities was 10%. [33] In 2009, the employment rate of graduates who had bachelor's degree was in the 88% range. [34] In 2010, the employment rate of college graduates rose 3.2% in 2009 reaching 91.2%. [35]
According to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), only 63% of law graduates from the class of 2015 obtained full time, bar passage required employment. [1] Almost 11% of 2015 graduates were unemployed despite a U.S. unemployment rate of 5%. [2] Over 500 graduates (1.4% of graduates) worked in non-professional positions.
The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%.
Unemployment rates historically are lower for those groups with higher levels of education. For example, in May 2016 the unemployment rate for workers over 25 years of age was 2.5% for college graduates, 5.1% for those with a high school diploma, and 7.1% for those without a high school diploma.
The city of 258,000 residents has the highest percentage of people between 20 and 29 years old (26.60%) and the lowest unemployment rate for people with bachelor's degrees (1.4%) across our study.
Unemployment rate by jurisdiction. Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [4] and Puerto Rico [5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but ...
Ohio employers added 20,100 jobs in October as the state continues its economic recovery from the early days of the pandemic. Ohio unemployment rate drops to 5.1% in October as employers add ...
The educational attainment of the U.S. population refers to the highest level of education completed. [2] The educational attainment of the U.S. population is similar to that of many other industrialized countries with the vast majority of the population having completed secondary education and a rising number of college graduates that ...