Recent College of William and Mary graduates have been more successful finding jobs than College graduates a decade ago, according to annual senior surveys conducted by the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Career Center. While the College employment rate has been on the rise since it hit its nadir in 2002, however, it is lower than it was 15 years ago.
“2009 was a hard year,” Associate Director of the Career Center David Lapinski said. “But it also wasn’t as bad as 2008 or the early to mid-2000’s.”
86 percent of 2009 graduates are either employed or continuing their education. This is 6.1 percent fewer than the 93.8 percent of 1994 graduates who were employed or in graduate school within six months of commencement.
College graduates are faring worse in the job market than the national population. The 2009 graduate unemployment rate was 14 percent, while the national unemployment rate was 9.1 percent at the time of commencement in 2009.
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