Probably the McKinsy report: http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/UXC001%20Voice%20of%20the%20Graduate%20v7.pdf http://mckinseyonsociety.com

Probably the McKinsy report: http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/UXC001%20Voice%20of%20the%20Graduate%20v7.pdf http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/UXC... Most notably, the number comes from self-reporting. So this could range from "barista" to "sales" to "software engineer". I'm not particularly surprised when someone's first job out of college doesn't make use of their education. But there's a huge difference between a business major going into sales to learn an industry (or a code monkey stuck on a boring project they could've worked on in high school), and an English major becoming a taxi driver. In short, from the data, it's impossible to distinguish between "putting in your time" or "bad first assignment", and "actually under-utilized". * This doesn't generalize well to STEM graduates, where the numbers are closer to 75%. IMO the GP's assessment that we've reached "peak school" is absolutely incorrect. Rather, we've seen a big shift in the type of labor that's needed in a short time frame. If a freshly minted college grad can fetch $100,000+ and great benefits, then "peak school" isn't a real problem yet.