Competition in the Global Workplace

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The University of Arizona is home to 31,670 undergraduate students, 90% of whom are enrolled full time. The four-year graduation rate is 34%. When compared to the average of 19% of communication/PR majors in the nation you get 1.8%. This means 570 students’ will graduate with my degree.

From Arizona State University they have 38,730 undergraduates enrolled. Out of those 90% are full time students and 31% will graduate on time. Divided with the 19% national average this amounts to exactly 1.6% of the student body ending up with a communications degree. This means from this university alone I will be competing with 619 recent grads.

Lastly, North Arizona University has 26,120 undergraduate students with 86% being full time. Only about 31% graduate in four years. Divide that 30% by the national average of communications majors and you get 1.6% of students graduating with a communications degree. This amounts to 418 students graduating and entering the workforce with me.

In total between these three major Arizona universities that has my degree, I will be graduating and competing with a total of 1,607 students. Which is almost three times the amount of students from Cuyahoga County, in almost half the number of universities.

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The country I chose to research for this project was The Bahamas. There was only one institution, which offered my Public Relations/ Communications major, and it was The College of the Bahamas. According to The Complete University Guides website which is run from the UK there are about 5,000 students enrolled as full time undergraduates. I could not find a graduation rate for the college so I am estimating that 50% of those students will graduate on time in four years with a bachelor’s degree. That means 2,500 students, and if 19% graduated with a degree in communications then my competition from the Bahamas alone would be 475 students.

Overall I have a lot of competition in the global market place. Especially in a field that is consistently growing and expanding as businesses and individuals recognize the need for structured and effective communication in order to sell their products and services successfully. There’s a saying in PR that if communication were easy, everyone would do it. I look forward to graduation and entering in the workforce, and hope that in my time here at Baldwin Wallace I take some classes that will give me a competitive edge over the hundreds of thousands of students competing against me for jobs.

Works Cited

PRSA: Public Relations Society of America

https://www.prsa.org

National Center for Education Statistics

https://nces.ed.gov

Americas Top Colleges

http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

The College Board

https://www.collegeboard.org

Wikipedia: College of the Bahamas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_The_Bahamas