Most with college STEM degrees go to work in other fields, survey finds
People with bachelor鈥檚 degrees in science, technology, engineering and math are more likely than other college graduates to have a job, but most of them don鈥檛 work in STEM occupations, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday.
Nearly 75 percent of all holders of bachelor鈥檚 degrees in STEM disciplines don鈥檛 have jobs in STEM occupations, according to a survey that reached 3.5 million homes, said Liana Christin Landivar, a sociologist with the Census Bureau. The bureau鈥檚 American Community Survey is the largest household survey in the nation.