Many college graduates are underemployed. But is that the college’s problem?
5 min readApr 1, 2024
A recent report from the Strada Education Foundation showed that “only about half of bachelor’s degree graduates secure employment in a college-level job within a year of graduation.” People with college degrees get jobs, but those jobs are not, according to the report, college level.
“the report defines a ‘college-level job’ as employment in occupations that typically require a four-year college degree, and ‘underemployment’ refers to the experience of four-year college graduates who are employed in…