Simon Fraser University students walk in a procession during the fall convocation ceremony at the university in Burnaby, B.C., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
Young adults graduating with a bachelor’s degree or higher are facing an increasingly bleak job market in Canada, even more so than many other demographics.
There were 493,000 unemployed individuals holding a bachelor’s degree or higher in the third quarter of 2025 but only 80,600 estimated job vacancies to demand such qualifications, according to Statistics Canada.
