Does anyone else find it mildly ironic that Liberal Arts was only 7.6% when all the media mouthpieces are blaming Liberal Arts majors for being unemployable?
I'm surprised, though, that unemployment amongst the Liberal Arts is far below national average. Even more surprising is Liberal Arts/Science degrees (Interdisciplinary Studies) is only 6.3% unemployed.
There's a critical problem with using Census data for this purpose: if you never got that first job in architecture, you're not actually classified as unemployed in your sector of choice. If you think about, this would be an impossible statistic to collect: how can you be a member of a profession just by virtue of getting a degree in the academic field most closely associated with it?
That unemployment rate would most likely apply to those arch grads who were actually employed in architecture at a full-time (35 hr week+) job for at least one calendar year and then subseqeuently got made redundant. The vast sea of people who never had a full-time job in the industry don't count as being unemployed in it. In fact, as i understand it, if they never got a full-time job in any field after graduating, they would not count as being unemployed at all!
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The top college majors with highest unemployment rates
Interesting, people outside the profession are starting to take notice...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/the-11-majors-with-the-hi_n_1081625.html#s459262&title=Architecture
half of the rest were various forms of psychology....
Does anyone else find it mildly ironic that Liberal Arts was only 7.6% when all the media mouthpieces are blaming Liberal Arts majors for being unemployable?
I'm surprised, though, that unemployment amongst the Liberal Arts is far below national average. Even more surprising is Liberal Arts/Science degrees (Interdisciplinary Studies) is only 6.3% unemployed.
There's a critical problem with using Census data for this purpose: if you never got that first job in architecture, you're not actually classified as unemployed in your sector of choice. If you think about, this would be an impossible statistic to collect: how can you be a member of a profession just by virtue of getting a degree in the academic field most closely associated with it?
That unemployment rate would most likely apply to those arch grads who were actually employed in architecture at a full-time (35 hr week+) job for at least one calendar year and then subseqeuently got made redundant. The vast sea of people who never had a full-time job in the industry don't count as being unemployed in it. In fact, as i understand it, if they never got a full-time job in any field after graduating, they would not count as being unemployed at all!
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