As job creation slowed through most of 2025, Midwestern college graduates — and those approaching graduation — describe a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Many new college graduates are struggling to find employment, but experts offer strategies to help candidates stand out in a competitive job market. Recent data from the Federal ...

A new report finds that 33% of 2025 college graduates are unemployed and actively seeking work. Only 30% of 2025 college graduates and 41% of 2024 graduates found entry-level jobs in their fields, ...

In the past weeks, hundreds of thousands of students earned diplomas from colleges and universities across the country. But for many, the biggest challenge still lies ahead: landing a job in their ...

May marked a spike in unemployment rates for graduates—including those with a master’s degree or higher. Unemployment rates for recent college graduates have surged in recent data, with the rate for ...

Artificial intelligence could upend entry-level work as recent college graduates enter the job market, eliminating many positions at the bottom of the white-collar career ladder or at least reshaping ...

College students seeking jobs in the social impact sector face a tough job market these days. Wesleyan University, my alma mater, indexes high for graduating students eager to take on jobs like ...

The rise of generative AI is making it harder for recent college graduates to get a foothold on the corporate ladder as they start their careers. Job listings for the kind of entry-level corporate ...

College graduates may be losing their edge in the labor market, as the unemployment gap between them and workers with only high school degrees has narrowed and reached its lowest level in decades, ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I look at how recent cuts to the federal work force are having downstream effects on their ...

This fall, some 19 million undergraduates returned to U.S. campuses with a long-held expectation: Graduate, land an entry-level job, climb the career ladder. That formula is breaking down. Once ...

Advances of AI chatbots like ChatGPT heighten concern, experts say. Artificial intelligence could upend entry-level work as recent college graduates enter the job market, eliminating many positions at ...