Employment Outlook Brighter for College Grads
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Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — It’s good to be a college graduate. Or, at the very least, it’s better than it was last year.
An update of the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ job outlook finds that employers will hire 8.6 percent more graduates this spring, compared to the same time in 2013.
Employers that responded to the NACE survey indicated that they’re mostly looking for business, engineering and accounting majors with bachelor’s degrees. In fact, seven in ten companies specifically want business majors.
Grads who will likely struggle to find work will be those who got their degrees in health science and education although Andrea Koncz, employment information officer for NACE, points out that the preponderance of respondents were from the finance, insurance and real estate industries.
As for who can expect to earn the most with their bachelor’s degree, it’s petroleum engineering majors with a starting salary of $95,300.
While companies expect to employ more grads in 2014, Koncz says the numbers are still on the flat side because the rate of increase is really no different from previous years.
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