Proportionately, 71 percent of career-oriented majors were working full time at one job in 2003 compared with 67 percent of academic majors.
The report uncovered gender differences. During each of the three interview periods, men were employed full time at a job at higher rates than women. The percentage of men employed full time at one job increased from 73 percent in 1994 to 80 percent in 1997 and then stabilized at 81 percent in 2003.
The percentage of women employed full time at one job also increased between 1994 and 1997 from 69 to 72 percent. In 2003, it declined to 60 percent, although the decline was counterbalanced to some extent by an increase in part-time employment at another job which increased from 9 percent in 1997 to 12 percent 2003.
By 2003, 46 percent of the graduates had at some point been unemployed since graduation. The average period of unemployment was nine months, however unemployment became less of an issue over time.
In the first year after finishing college, 29 percent of graduates had at least one spell of unemployment.
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