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Re:Ph.D. Bust, Pt. 2: How Bad Is the Job Market For Young Am... by jbdeboer on Friday February 22, 2013 @01:38PM (#5265797)
Indeed. None of these numbers answer the question "How many graduates who wanted a job could not find one?".
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Re:Ph.D. Bust, Pt. 2: How Bad Is the Job Market For Young Am... by bikenaga on Friday February 22, 2013 @08:55PM (#5268171)
(From the 2010-2011 final survey done by the American Math. Society, for new Math Ph.D.s, which I linked elsewhere)

Unknown (U.S.): 85 Not seeking employment: 18 Still seeking employment: 53 Unknown (non U.S.): 83

If you count all of these as "unemployed" (which is probably a significant overestimate), that's 239 out of 1653 new Ph.D.'s, or around 14.4%. If you count only "Still seeking employment" as "unemployed", that's around 3.2%. But I don't know how the numbers in the sciences or in engineering would be similar to those in math.

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