Chart 7 also identifies the share of recent college graduates
working in jobs where a bachelor’s degree is required
and the share working in jobs where a bachelor’s degree is not
required. For example, 75 percent of those with an engineering
degree worked in a job that required a college degree.9 We find
that majors providing technical training—that is, training that
focuses on quantitative and analytical skills—had the highest
shares of graduates working in jobs that require a degree; engineering
and math and computers majors are cases in point. In
addition, education and health majors also had high shares of
workers employed in jobs that require a college degree, again
likely reflecting the growth of these sectors in recent years.