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.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 to 34 years (CGBD2534) from Jan 2000 to May 2025 about 25 to 34 years, tertiary schooling, education, unemployment, rate, and USA.

As of February 2023, **** percent of recent college graduates who majored in Fine Arts were unemployed in the United States. *** percent of recent college graduates who majored in philosophy were also unemployed.

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This interactive chart compares the historical unemployment rate for college graduates versus those with just a high school diploma and no college studies.

In June 2024, about **** percent of recent college graduates were underemployed in the United States. This indicated no change from the previous month.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York defines underemployment as "working in a job that typically does not require a bachelor’s degree". Recent college graduates are those aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor's degree or higher

The statistic shows the highest unemployment rates among university graduates in China in 2010, by degree course. In 2010, the unemployment rate among financial administration graduates amounted to 12.6 percent in China.

In 2023, around 23.5 percent of high school dropouts were unemployed, compared to 15.8 percent of graduates. See the United States unemployment rate and the monthly unemployment rate for further information. Unemployment among high school dropouts and high school graduatesAs seen from the timeline above, high school graduates are generally employed at a higher rate than individuals who had dropped out of high school. Since 2000, the share of high school dropouts to be employed has risen and fallen. Unemployment of high school dropouts reached a low in 2020 at 7.5 percent, falling well below graduates. In 2021, 90.1 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from high school. Unemployment of high school graduates not enrolled in college is much higher than the national unemployment rate in the United States. As of 2021, unemployment in the U.S. was at 5.3 percent, down from a high of 9.6 percent unemployment in 2010, the highest yearly rate in ten years. Nationwide, unemployment is worst among farming, fishing, and forestry occupations, with a rate of 5.1 percent in May 2022, followed by construction and extraction occupations and transportation and material moving occupations. Not only were more than 7.5 percent of high school dropouts unemployed in 2021, but working high school dropouts earned less on average than individuals of any other level of educational attainment. In 2020, mean earnings of individuals who had not graduated from high school were about 26,815 U.S. dollars annually, compared to 39,498 dollars among high school graduates and 73,499 dollars among those with a Bachelor's degree.

United States - Unemployment Rate: College Graduates: Advanced Degree: Master's Degree and Higher, 18 to 19 years was 1.40% in January of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate: College Graduates: Advanced Degree: Master's Degree and Higher, 18 to 19 years reached a record high of 100.00 in March of 2020 and a record low of 1.20 in December of 2021. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate: College Graduates: Advanced Degree: Master's Degree and Higher, 18 to 19 years - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force.

The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)'.

United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 years and over was 2.60% in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 years and over reached a record high of 9.40 in April of 2020 and a record low of 1.50 in April of 2000. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 years and over - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

As of February 2023, around **** percent of recent college graduates who majored in criminal justice were underemployed in the United States. Of those who majored in performing arts, about ** percent were underemployed.

United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 20 to 24 years, Men was 9.30% in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 20 to 24 years, Men reached a record high of 18.60 in June of 2020 and a record low of 2.10 in March of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 20 to 24 years, Men - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Doctoral Degree, 25 years and over was 1.80% in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Doctoral Degree, 25 years and over reached a record high of 4.50 in June of 2020 and a record low of 0.30 in February of 2001. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Doctoral Degree, 25 years and over - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

The Recent College Graduates (RCG) survey estimates the potential supply of newly qualified teachers in the United States and explores the immediate post-degree employment and education experiences of individuals obtaining bachelor's or master's degrees from American colleges and universities. The RCG survey, which focuses heavily, but not exclusively, on those graduates qualified to teach at the elementary and secondary levels, is designed to meet the following objectives: (1) to determine how many graduates become eligible or qualified to teach for the first time and how many are employed as teachers in the year following graduation, by teaching field, (2) to examine the relationship between courses taken, student achievement, and occupational outcomes, and (3) to monitor unemployment rates and average salaries of graduates by field of study. The RCG survey collects information on education and employment of all graduates (date of graduation, field of study, whether newly qualified to teach, further enrollment, financial aid, employment status, and teacher employment characteristics), as well as standard demographic characteristics such as earnings, age, marital status, sex, and race/ethnicity.

Portugal's graduate unemployment landscape between 2020 and 2024 reveals a striking imbalance across fields of study. Business sciences, administration, and law graduates faced the highest unemployment rate at 25.7 percent, while information and communication technologies (ICT) graduates experienced the lowest at 1.8 percent. The social sciences, journalism, and information field and arts and humanities presented the second and third-highest shares of unemployed graduates registered in employment centers, with 18 and 15.7 percent, respectively. Rising graduate numbers, persistent gender gap  The number of higher education graduates in Portugal has more than doubled since the late 1990s, reaching over 95,600 in the 2022/2023 academic year. Women consistently outnumbered men among graduates, with nearly 56,000 female graduates compared to 40,000 male graduates in the most recent year. However, this gender gap reversed in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, where men accounted for 65 percent of graduates across all study cycles during the 2022/2023 academic year. Growing higher education enrollment  Despite the increasing number of graduates, the unemployment rate for the youth has been decreasing slowly since the end of 2023. The positive trend occurred as higher education enrollment continues to grow, with over 446,000 students in the 2022/2023 academic year. Universities attract more students than polytechnic institutes across all regions, with Greater Lisbon hosting the largest student population of over 147,000, despite not being the country’s region with the highest number of higher education establishments.

Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and jurisdictions. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.

The statistic shows the unemployment rate of college graduates in Canada from graduation year 2000 to 2010. 5 percent of those who graduated in 2009/2010 with a college degree in Canada were unemployed three years after graduation.

United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 to 34 years, Women was 2.60% in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 to 34 years, Women reached a record high of 11.00 in July of 2020 and a record low of 1.30 in September of 2019. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Unemployment Rate - College Graduates - Bachelor's Degree, 25 to 34 years, Women - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

In 2024, around 6.2 percent of people aged 25 and older who had less than a high school diploma, were unemployed. After relatively high levels of unemployment across all education groups in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment levels have decreased in the subsequent years. The monthly unemployment rate in the U.S. can be accessed here and the unemployment rate for each U.S. state can be accessed here.