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What Does the Mix of College Majors Reveal About Society? Grads and AI Follow the degrees, and you can see tomorrow’s workforce taking shape. The Mix of College Majors Is Society’s Talent Forecast When students flood into computer science, they are responding to a signal. If biology grows, that is a signal too. When education shrinks, that silence is also a signal — one we notice only after the shortage arrives. In 2021–22, U.S. colleges awarded roughly 2 million bachelor’s degrees. Business led at 19%. Health professions followed at 13%. Computer and information sciences more than doubled over the prior decade, rising from 47,400 to 108,500 degrees. Biological and biomedical sciences grew 37%. Those are not just education statistics. They are clues. They show where pressure is building, where opportunity is concentrating, and where gaps are already forming. The Balance Problem Every major builds a different kind of capacity. Computer science builds platforms. Biology builds health and...

How Has AI Impacted Recent College Graduates? Why the class of “right now” is entering a different kind of job market ◼️  High-level framing The question  how has AI impacted recent college graduates  is really about timing: this cohort is stepping into work just as AI becomes baked into hiring, job design, and day-to-day tasks. AI now screens résumés, shapes job descriptions, and supports (or automates) early-career work. At the same time, grads are using AI to draft applications, prep for interviews, and ramp faster once hired. The result is a job market where algorithms sit between graduates and opportunity—creating new accelerators, new barriers, and a real need to understand how to partner with AI rather than compete blindly against it. The New Job Search: AI on Both Sides The job hunt for recent grads is now AI-versus-AI more than human-versus-human. On the  employer side : One hiring report found  99% of surveyed hiring managers use AI somewhere in their ...