51�Թ�

Joshua Alferos was two semesters away from a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering when he ran out of money.

Jack Rico, who earned his bachelor’s degree in history, says he wants to aim for a master’s degree next.

Whether it was after playing Major League Baseball for 15 years or directly after earning his bachelor’s degree, it was a goal he strived to achieve.

Last summer, Inside Higher Ed highlighted a report finding that “more than half of bachelor’s degree holders are underemployed a year after graduation.”

Lloyd Greif, a prominent alumnus of the USC Marshall School of Business, said that in 2021 — the year of the socially distanced commencement at the Coliseum — two of his children graduated from the business school, one with a bachelor’s degree, the other a graduate degree.