What is Your Major?

[Just Sayin]

[vu84v2]

I know this says the source is BLS and NCES, but this makes no sense. Placement for graduating engineers (within six months) at Valpo is 97%. Some small portion of that is graduates going on to graduate schools or military service, but most of the 97% is graduates getting jobs. Valpo does well in placing its graduates, but this placement rate is pretty normal for engineers - as there are more jobs available than engineers. Further, the placement rate for most business schools is above 90% (Valpo reports 96%).

Within most professional disciplines, students should be confident that they will find a good job. It is a very different story for majors not associated with professional disciplines (e.g., liberal arts - maybe "life sciences" is included in that).

[Just Sayin]

Supply and demand might depend on which subfield in engineering students choose to study:

[vu84v2]

I agree that supply and demand would vary between disciplines, but the strong majority of engineers who graduate (including from Valpo) are in civil, mechanical, electrical and computer (and probably industrial - though I do not think Valpo has industrial) and the placement rates for those schools are higher than 95%. Bottom line: if you go to college and get a degree in engineering, you get a job (and as the right column shows, one that pays quite well).

[Just Sayin]

Who said you couldn't get a good job with an engineering degree?

[vu84v2]

Who said you couldn't get a good job with an engineering degree?

The chart that you used to start this discussion, which suggests that graduating engineers outweigh engineering job openings by 3 to 1. This slide, wherever it came from, makes no sense given the extremely high placement rates for graduating engineers at pretty much every accredited university.