Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t)<br />“We’re misleading a lot of young people.”<br />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<br />and 17 percent in physical sciences, according to a 2013 National Science Foundation survey.<br />In the decade ending in 2024, 73 percent of STEM job growth will be in computer occupations,<br />but only 3 percent will be in the physical sciences and 3 percent in the life sciences.<br />But he believes that STEM advocates, often executives and lobbyists for technology companies, do a disservice when they raise the alarm<br />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.<br />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.
