Mid-level saturation

[postbacpremed87]

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Is the mid-level education/employment market becoming saturated? Through conversations at lunch/in the lab, most of the students taking classes are pre-PA or pre-PharmD. There are only a handful of pre-med students (good for me I guess). What is it like where you are? It seems to me that there is a pre-PA/pre-pharmD education bubble and too many of them are being pumped out. New colleges are forming left and right and pumping out these grads.

Side note: My undergrad degree was Econ so I like analyzing the labor markets.

 

[Eric01]

Everything is saturated right now there's 16+ million unemployed Americans. My friend spent 6 months finding a computer science job. He had nearly a 4.0 GPA, with a bunch of research projects and computer certifications, not to mention he's been working on computers since he was 5 years old.

The engineering field is nearly dead too, well except maybe for petroleum/electrical engineering. Some sectors of mechanical engineering are still alive, but that has become a tough market.

I mean realistically speaking it's difficult to find a job anywhere, which is why graduate degrees are almost a must to get into entry level professional positions.

 

[bucks2010]

"pre-PA" or "pre-Pharm" doesn't really mean anything. there are tons of pre-meds (well ~44,000 applicants/yr) yet you will not see physician saturation because the number of med school seats and residency slots are very thoughtfully determined.

I do not know anything about how PA or Pharm seats are regulated, but if they are anything like medicine then PA's/Pharm's will not become saturated, but obtaining seats in said schools will become more competitive.

I have, however, heard that some nursing programs are more loosely regulated leading to the possibility of market saturation in the future (speaking of CRNA's in particular).