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> maybe a university isn't the most unbiased resource but.. I'm not sure if anything similar in the US exists, but Stats Canada puts out data on employment by
by wheelinsupial 5y ago
> maybe a university isn't the most unbiased resource but..
I'm not sure if anything similar in the US exists, but Stats Canada puts out data on employment by majors in Canada.
[1] shows that graduates of the humanities and social sciences have the highest rate of underemployment whereas graduates of nursing, engineering, CS, and education programs have the lowest rate of underemployment.
[2] performs a comparison of workers from 1991 to 2011 and concludes that underemployment rates (called overqualification here) have not changed much. Field of study is broken out for the 2011 group, however, the 1991 data isn't broken out.
[3] Breaks out salary for graduates of Canadian majors (118 fields of study for men, 123 fields of study for women) 5 years after graduation prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it does not break this down by university, and it seems to lump computer science in with math. Surveys completed in BC [4] show that for self-reported earnings there is a difference in earnings for the same major across different universities. It also treats math and computer science separately and in some cases, CS majors earn 2x math majors two years after graduating.
[1] https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98-200-x/2016025/98-200-x2016025-eng.cfm https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98...
[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2014001/article/11916-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2014001/article...
[3] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2020018-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2020018...
[4] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics/people-population-community/education-training/bc-student-outcomes/publications/baccalaureate-graduates-survey https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics/people-po...