The Industries With The Highest Employability

Curious to know which industries have the best odds of job security at this moment in time?

A new analysis from Asana, the work‑management platform, offers a clear snapshot of which college degrees are leading to jobs.

Asana used the U.S. the Department of Education’s latest College Scorecard release, which considered 592 four‑year institutions and more than 32,000 bachelor’s programs, ranking fields of study by the percentage of graduates employed within a year. Only programs with at least 500 graduates and 100 employed alumni made the cut for this study.

The top three are all industries tied to infrastructure, safety, and health, and are potentially the most reliable fields in the country. At the top of the list sits a U.S. powerhouse field: registered nursing and related fields, where an astonishing 98.91% of the 122,000 nursing graduates represented in the data secure a job within a year. Right behind nursing is construction management at 98.64%, followed by a tie for third between quality control and safety technologies and dental support services at 98.50%.

Looking at numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics sector data, these four fields have proved reliable through the U.S.’s hardest times. Health care, construction, and other essential infrastructure‑related occupations have not only rebounded from early‑pandemic disruptions, but consistently outperformed overall U.S. employment trends in the years that followed.

Where do business students fall into this chart? While business didn’t crack the top ten (or even the top fifty), this field is ever-growing and offers grads strong overall employability and lots of versatility. This field remains the most popular major in the U.S., accounting for nearly 8% of all bachelor’s graduates, says the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard.

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