In a recent report for Statistics Canada, Marc Frenette and Tomasz Handler examined the variety of occupations that were attained by 25-to-34-year-old cégep and college graduates. Drawing on 2021 Census data, Frenette and Handler assessed the five most prevalent jobs that graduates held for each six-digit Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code. They found that some programs—such as clinical laboratory science—had graduates that were highly concentrated in five or fewer occupations. Others—such as civil engineering and the culinary arts—saw graduates employed across a much wider variety of jobs. Frenette and Handler noted the similarities between these findings and a previous study of bachelor’s degree graduates’ jobs. They conclude that these findings are valuable for helping high school students understand the jobs they can expect to attain upon graduation if they pursue a particular field of study.
