A new research by Georgetown University discovered that career rates for higher education graduates with humanities degrees were on par with those in the mathematical and computer fields. The review shown hiring on Hound.com, where many jobs continue to value and require the broad-based abilities highlighted in liberal arts programs, such as reading, composing, and interaction. A latest research performed by the Georgetown Center on Education and the Employees, published May 29, 2013 and examined career styles among higher education students, depending on data from 2010 to 2011. The research discovered that degree-holding job-seekers continued to improve than their counterparts: an unemployment rate for higher education graduates was 4.6-4.7 percent for those 25 years and older, while those without at least a bachelor’s degree had an unemployment rate of 9-10 percent or more than double. For those who followed graduate studies, the unemployment rate dropped even further, to 3.3 percent.
Interestingly, the review discovered that unemployment rates for certain humanities and social sciences degrees were comparable to certain computer and arithmetic degrees. The unemployment rate for information technology degrees, at 8.7 percent, was only a little bit reduced than the rate for English and lit degrees, at 9.8 percent. In some areas of study, humanities degrees actually had the leg up on career over their more technical and science-based alternatives. English degrees (9.8 percent) and history, spiritual research, and philosophy degrees (9.5 percent) had reduced unemployment rates than information research degrees (14.7 percent).
The results countered the common argument that technology and mathematical degrees, without exception, tend to have better job prospects compared to humanities and liberal arts students. While most humanities programs do not directly convert into a specific job description, many graduates are finding that the abilities highlighted in these liberal arts programs do carry over into the working world. Many careers, such as marketing, literature, and composing, award the high-level interaction abilities that are taught and perfected in college-level humanities courses.