Half of [UK] Graduates Unemployed or Underpaid.

A recent study in the UK found graduates are struggling to get work.
Getting a "qualification" is no guarantee to success. It is "learning" that makes a difference, not the qualification.

Qualifications 20 years ago were longer, and fewer people had them and more graduates found employment. Today, qualifications are shorter, more people have them, and more graduates struggle for employment.

What has changed? Less learning in qualifications today!

Half of [UK] Graduates Unemployed or Underpaid
UK – A new study has found that half of all new graduates are either unemployed or in underpaid work six months after graduating.

A survey by The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found that 52% of the 15,655 people who left university last year had not found jobs or been forced to undertake menial work.

Around 59,000 (20%) of graduates had not had a job this year, the highest percentage in a decade and twice as many as at the beginning of the recession in 2008.

Distance Learning Group Group News | LinkedIn

 

I believe that rate for recent US graduates is somewhere around that percentage as well.

 

A citation from LinkIn isn't worth much in my opinion.

More informative is the Guardian University Guide 2012 which shows the proportion of graduates employed in a career in 6 months of graduation by university from 39 to 82%

• Career prospects: proportion of graduates who find graduate-level employment, or study full-time, within six
months of graduation.

University guide 2012: University league table | Education | guardian.co.uk

As I have explained many times, the gap in quality among UK universities is as great as the gap between Harvard and Trevecca Nazarene University.