THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FACULTY WISE ENROLLMENT TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PAKISTAN
Keywords:
Enrollment Trends, Employment OpportunitiesAbstract
This research aims to explore the trend of registration in tertiary education and their corresponding employment
chances in Pakistan. The research was quantitative in nature and based on admission data (2012-17) from 27
universities, employment advertisement data (2012-17) from four newspapers. The multistage, stratified, purposive,
and random sampling techniques were used to collect the data from different sections of the population. Descriptive
as well as the inferential statistics was used for the analysis of the data. The results showed that the higher
education trend of registration was in the subjects of Basic Sciences. Moreover, maximum employment was
presented for the field of Basic Sciences and less employment was published for the subjects of Social Sciences.