The graphs illustrate the career options pursued by 2010 US bachelor’s and master’s students other than full-time employment. There were four types of career paths shown in the charts: part-time job, voluntary work, further study, and unemployment. Overall, majority of both undergrads and postgrads took further study option, while volunteer jobs was the least favorable option.
Among the US bachelors, more than thirty thousand of undergrads chose to have a higher academic degree and study further. There was a significant difference in the number of students between part-time employment and further study with a gap of around twelve thousand students, while about sixteen thousand of undergrads were jobless. Then, the remaining students, accounted for about four thousand took volunteer service as their career choice.
In term of master graduates pursuits, enrollment in higher education degrees and part-time work chosen by 2,800 and 2,610 students, respectively, with together formed over than half of the percentages. While 1,700 postgrads were out of job, only 420 of them got voluntary work. For comparison between the two graduates, there was a similarity with the most and least popular options. Notable gap was seen between further study and part-time work for the bachelors, while postgraduates had remakable difference between part-time job and unemployment.