72 Percent of Jobs to Require College Degree By 2021: Report

Almost three-fourths of U.S. jobs will require a college degree by the year 2031, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Job fields that require higher education are growing at a faster rate than those that don’t—a trend that has stayed consistent over the past several decades, according to the report. In 1983, only 32 percent of jobs in the nation required a college degree or another type of postsecondary education, which skyrocketed to 68 percent by 2021, the report stated. Now, researchers estimate 72 percent of jobs will require such in eight years. “Postsecondary education is no longer just the preferred pathway to middle-class jobs—it is, increasingly, the only pathway,” the report stated. “People without postsecondary education and training often end up working in the blue-collar and skilled-trades economy, but even many of those jobs are requiring workers with at least some education or training beyond high school.”...