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Official: Computer science graduates ‘most unlikely’ to find work
- bdfh42 16y agoGood headline but the devil is in the detail as usual. The same survey also noted (not reported in this article) that unemployment rates among male graduates exceed the unemployment rate among female graduates by a substantial margin. Factor that in and with an assumption (could be wrong) that men predominate on Computer Science degrees and the differences start to look like something other than poor quality science courses - although (anecdotally anyway) those do exist.
- manvsmachine 16y agoAs bdfh42 noted, the unemployment rate is currently higher for men than for women (in both the UK and the US). While that fact merely correlates with the CS grad employment rate, the two trends may share a cause: per-employee cost. A common argument is that, in a recessive economy, women maintain a higher employment employment rate because they tend to make considerably less than men, given the same position and experience, therefore incurring less of a cost to their employers. Similarly, CS (and other technical degrees), have a considerably higher minimum expected cost - I'd guess the salary of a junior dev to still be around 50K US. Most of the successful grads mentioned seem to have gone into teaching or entry level jobs in the medical / financial fields, for which fresh grads don't necessarily make as much. The exceptions would be the doctors and lawyers, but they benefit from artificially created scarcity due to the professional school admissions process.
- starkfist 16y agoThis is in the UK - I don't know anything about the UK. In the US, this probably holds true for everywhere outside of the main technology hubs. Things seem great right now for me in NYC, and I get about 12 recruitment emails per day from firms in Silicon Valley, but if I wanted to live in my home state, I'd be fucked.