Of the 219,000 college graduates in Beijing who will graduate in July, around 84,500 have already found jobs as of May 14, according to figures released by the government on Tuesday.
The graduate employment rate is 38.6 percent, a percentage that is two points higher than last year. However, the employment rates are different according to the major.
"Although there are many job opportunities in Beijing this year, graduates in some majors still have difficulty finding jobs," said Guo Guangsheng, deputy director of the Beijing municipal commission of education.
Guo said universities should be guided by the market demand to resolve the difficulty. Some majors had the problem that the supply of graduates exceeded demand and competition for jobs was fierce.
Universities should research market and adjust their majors to resolve the problem, Guo said.
A survey report from MyCOS HR Digital Information Co Ltd, a human resources consulting company in Beijing, shows the 10 majors with the highest rates of unemployment.
These include computer science and technology, English and law, all of which were the most popular majors in 2009 for Beijing students entering universities in 2005.
"It is very difficulty to find a job this year although I got a high score to enter into this major four years ago," said Tao Lufei, a fresh graduate major in computer science and technology from a university in Beijing.
Tao has yet to find a job related to his major.
Tao said he had to choose postgraduate study because he had received no job offer related to his major, while many of his many friends in other majors had already accepted jobs.
"We have already stopped enrolling for some majors, such as administrative management and marketing, which have difficulty in securing employment," said Liu Zhifang, deputy secretary of the Party committee with the China University of Geosciences.
Liu said the number of graduates in the social science and administration schools in the university had been reduced from 480 to 210 students in 2009, while the number of graduates for geosciences had been increased from 305 to 590 to meet increased demand.
