Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca)

BarbaraHudson writes: Following up from an earlier report from Statistics Canada (pdf), the Parliamentary Budget Officer warns that an increasing number of university graduates are overqualified for their jobs. The CBC reports: "Last year, 40 per cent of university graduates aged 25-34 were overqualified for their job. Five years ago, that percentage was only 36 per cent. In 1991, it hit a low of 32 per cent, or less than one out of every three university graduates. The problem is bigger than that, because those young workers spent money, time, and resources to get those qualifications.

Comments

Re:Why Not Vocational?

[tsotha]

But why would you go into a field like that? As soon as the economy recovers, all those illegals will be back to undercut your wages.

Re:The obvious answer

[BarbaraHudson]

More women graduate than men. More women than men work in professional jobs.

Another Canadian here. The study confirms the truth of this in Canada, and ISTR that more women than men have been graduating in the US for quite some time.

However, pointing out these facts will get you labeled as a misogynistic bastard by the SJWs who are more interested in pot-stirring to keep the attention and money rolling in, than in acknowledging that in may ways, the pendulum has now swung back, and then some. Me, they'll just say I don't count.