TO THE EDITOR:
Readers of “Will your major get you a job?” on Jan. 19 may have missed an important finding from the survey used as the source for the story: Education majors have the second-lowest rate of unemployment.
UNC students may find this information very useful. Education offers a career for those who are civic-minded and committed to making a difference — exactly the type of people that UNC students have demonstrated themselves to be. Each year, all of Carolina’s graduating seniors with education degrees land jobs in the field for which they were educated and trained.
The survey cited in the story also had good news for those who obtain graduate degrees in education. Employment rates for these graduates are even higher than for those with bachelor degrees. UNC’s School of Education offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a new minor in education launching in the fall, that prepare students for careers as effective and caring educators. And even in the current economic climate, our graduates get jobs.
Bill McDiarmid
Dean
School of Education
