Employment, high-skilled employment, unemployment and inactivity rates by graduate type (postgraduates, graduates and non-graduates) in 2022 and 2023.

The employment rate for university graduates in England was 87.6 percent in 2024, compared with 68 percent for non-graduates. People with postgraduate degrees had an even higher employment rate than those with an undergraduate degree, at 90 percent.

College Majors and their Graduates

Job Opportunities, Salaries and Gender Disparities

By FiveThirtyEight [source]

About this dataset

This repository contains a comprehensive selection of lavish data and processing scripts behind the articles, graphics, and interactive experiences generated by FiveThirtyEight. With this dataset, you'll have the power to explore college programs and their graduates like never before and create stories of your own! Whether you use it to check our work or craft your own powerful visuals, we would absolutely love to know if you found it useful. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and MIT License respectively, our data is available for anyone who chooses to use it. Let us know how our resources turned out at

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Research Ideas

• Create an interactive comparison tool for researching college majors and their earning potential, so that prospective students can make informed decisions about what to study.
• Analyze the proportions of male and female graduates across different majors to uncover gender disparities in higher education.
• Explore the correlations between major categories, average salaries earned by graduates from specific major categories, unemployment rates for those with specific majors and more – to identify trends in job opportunities for certain specialties of study

Acknowledgements

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License

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Columns

File: majors-list.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------|:----------------------------------------------------| | FOD1P | First-level division of the field of study (String) | | Major | The specific major of the field of study (String) | | Major_Category | The broader category of the field of study (String) |

File: recent-grads.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Major | The specific major of the field of study (String) | | Rank | The rank of the major in terms of popularity (Integer) | | Major_code | The code associated with the major (Integer) | | Major_category | The category of the major (String) | | Total | The total number of students in the major (Integer) | | Sample_size | The sample size of the major (Integer) | | Men | The number of male students in the major (Integer) | | Women | The number of female students in the major (Integer) | | ShareWomen | The percentage of female students in the major (Float) | | Employed | The number of employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Full_time | The number of full-time employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Part_time | The number of part-time employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Full_time_year_round | The number of full-time year-round employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Unemployed | The number of unemployed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Unemployment_rate | The unemployment rate of graduates from the major (Float) | | Median | The median salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | P25th | The 25th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | P75th | The 75th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | College_jobs | The number of college jobs held by graduates from the major...

This dataset brings together anonymized records for over 300,000 international graduates—combining graduate‐outcomes survey data with visa, language, and academic information—to enable predictive analysis of:

Employment Status: Build classifiers (e.g., Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting) to forecast whether a graduate is employed, unemployed, or continuing education.

Salary Estimation: Train regression models (Linear, Ridge, Lasso) to estimate annual salary for those employed.

By exploring how Education Level, Field of Study, Language Proficiency, Visa Type, University Ranking, and other socio-demographic factors jointly influence post-graduation success, this dataset supports:

Feature Analysis: Quantify the relative importance of visa category vs. language-test scores vs. GPA, and uncover non-linear interactions (e.g., “Master’s + high IELTS score + long-duration visa”).

Policy & Institutional Insight:

Inform visa-policy recommendations by measuring the impact of post-study work rights on employability.

Guide universities in targeting language or internship programs to maximize graduate placement rates.

Dashboarding & Visualization: Pre-built Power BI dashboards illustrate trends such as salary distributions by field, employment rates by visa category, and language-impact across sectors.

Key Data Sources

UK HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey: hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/outcomes

Eurostat EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS): ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/european-union-labour-force-survey

Feel free to fork, explore, and build upon this dataset for advanced machine-learning experiments, policy simulations, or interactive visualizations!

Graduate employment rates by degree class in 2022

High school graduates in their twenties have consistently experienced a higher unemployment rate than college graduates in the same age range. However, the unemployment gap between the two education groups has recently narrowed, reaching its lowest level since the late 1970s. This Economic Commentary shows that this narrowing coincides with a decades-long decline, one that began around 2000, in the job-finding rate among young college graduates.

Sweden - Employment rates of recent graduates was 88.10% in December of 2022, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Sweden - Employment rates of recent graduates - last updated from the EUROSTAT on December of 2025. Historically, Sweden - Employment rates of recent graduates reached a record high of 88.70% in December of 2019 and a record low of 81.60% in December of 2009.

The National Survey of College Graduates is a repeated cross-sectional biennial survey that provides data on the nation's college graduates, with a focus on those in the science and engineering workforce. This survey is a unique source for examining the relationship of degree field and occupation in addition to other characteristics of college-educated individuals, including work activities, salary, and demographic information.

This statistic shows the employment rate of the proportion of full-time first degree graduates of the academic year 2015/2016 in the United Kingdom (UK), by subject area. **** of those graduating from Medicine, dentistry and veterinary science were employed six months after their graduation.

Statistics on employment situation of graduates of full-time UGC-funded programmes

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Master's Degree, 20 to 24 years (CGMD2024) from Jan 2000 to Aug 2025 about master's degree, 20 to 24 years, tertiary schooling, education, unemployment, rate, and USA.

Denmark - Employment rates of recent graduates was 85.10% in December of 2022, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Denmark - Employment rates of recent graduates - last updated from the EUROSTAT on October of 2025. Historically, Denmark - Employment rates of recent graduates reached a record high of 90.90% in December of 2007 and a record low of 80.60% in December of 2013.

In May 2024, about 4.5 percent of recent college graduates were unemployed in the United States. This was a significant decrease from September 2020, when the unemployment rate among recent college graduates was at nine percent.

Germany - Employment rates of recent graduates was 92.20% in December of 2022, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Germany - Employment rates of recent graduates - last updated from the EUROSTAT on December of 2025. Historically, Germany - Employment rates of recent graduates reached a record high of 92.70% in December of 2019 and a record low of 82.10% in December of 2006.

This dataset presents the employment rate of graduates from the University of Doha for Science and Technology, measured by academic year of graduation. It indicates the percentage of graduates who secured employment within a certain period after completing their studies. The dataset supports labor market analysis, institutional effectiveness, and graduate outcome tracking.

In 2025, the Masters of Business Administration domain had the highest employability rating among degree types in India at about ** percent, an increase from the previous year. The polytechnic domain had the lowest employability rate of around ** percent. What is employability? Employability refers to attributes that make an individual gain and maintain employment. This may include job-specific or soft skills. Higher employability is considered a precondition for achieving a higher employment rate. Although employability in India has increased to over ** percent from ** percent over a decade ago, there has remained a critical skill mismatch between education and skills. In other words, Indian graduates have been facing a disconnect between what is taught at colleges and what the industry demands. Enhancing employability through skill development Government initiatives like the National Skill Development Corporation and Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana aim to promote skill development in India. Public-private partnerships (PPP) have also been instrumental in making skill development initiatives effective in India. For example, TCS has partnered with educational institutions to provide vocational training in digital literacy and soft skills. Other industry giants like Samsung and IBM are planning to launch special training programs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in collaboration with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).

Spain - Employment rates of recent graduates was 79.10% in December of 2022, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Spain - Employment rates of recent graduates - last updated from the EUROSTAT on December of 2025. Historically, Spain - Employment rates of recent graduates reached a record high of 86.00% in December of 2007 and a record low of 59.90% in December of 2013.