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That doesn't seem right. I went to a state school. I think CS grads had a marketed 90ish% placement rate. Talking to others in my classes right before graduation it seems we had at least 80% of people with jobs lined up prior to graduation.

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It's not. It's often due to under reporting. And sometimes the blatant falsification of data. But you don't really need to do that when only a small percentage of individuals reply to your survey. And thats how you get a high placement rate. You also need to understand that for the hundreds of thousands of CS, IT degrees that are awarded each year only a few thousand jobs exist at the entry level. You see reports of hundreds of thousands of job postings but the vast majority are just repeats of the same listing.

Please post something to back up what you're saying. Right now it sounds like you're a conspiracy theorist, or maybe even troll with that throw away.

There are about 65k CS undergraduate degrees issued each year.

I don't think the BLS is double counting jobs. I believe they go to the companies for that info, not random job boards.

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