From Degrees to Jobs: Modeling Employment Prospects of Postgraduates in India through Machine Learning
Keywords:
Employability Prediction, Logistic Regression, Postgraduate Students, Employment Uncertainty, and Higher Education in India.Abstract
The higher education sector of India has experienced fast growth which results in yearlyproduction of millions of postgraduate students. Academic qualifications do not ensureemployment opportunities because employability continues to be a major issue in the job market.
The labor market faces uncertainty because of this mismatch which threatens the successful utilization of the nation's demographic dividend.
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