Yearly Employment Distribution

This is a time series analysis of the number of employed GVSU graduates from 2016 to 2021.

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It was observed that there was a higher number of employed graduates than those who were seeking employment throughout the period of 2016 to 2021. For instance in 2020, employed students were 1232 while those seeking employment were 287.

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent
Seeking 59 15.86022 201 10.95965 231 12.38606 192 10.77441 287 15.43841 21 3.620690
Enrolled 40 10.75269 270 14.72192 259 13.88740 263 14.75870 340 18.28940 30 5.172414
Employed 273 73.38710 1363 74.31843 1375 73.72654 1327 74.46689 1232 66.27219 529 91.206897

There was a decline in the number of students employed from 2019 to 2020 (1327 to 1232) but there was almost an equal increase in the number of graduates who enrolled for masters degree in the same year (263 to 340). However, 2021 is already showing a rise in the number of students getting jobs.