Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t)
“We’re misleading a lot of young people.”
Unemployment rates for STEM majors may be low, but not all of those with undergraduate degrees end up in their field of study — only 13 percent in life sciences
and 17 percent in physical sciences, according to a 2013 National Science Foundation survey.
In the decade ending in 2024, 73 percent of STEM job growth will be in computer occupations,
but only 3 percent will be in the physical sciences and 3 percent in the life sciences.
But he believes that STEM advocates, often executives and lobbyists for technology companies, do a disservice when they raise the alarm
that America is facing a worrying shortfall of STEM workers, based on shortages in a relative handful of fast-growing fields like data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and computer security.
About 90 percent of those who enter the Insight program have landed jobs as data analysts, the company says, with a dropout rate of about 3 percent.
