TY - BOOK AU - Muhammad Mukhtyar, TI - Higher education enrollment trends and job opportunities: Comparison between prospects and realities in Pakistan SN - (hbk) U1 - 378.954 PY - 2021///, CY - Lahore PB - Okara Campus, University of Education KW - Education--Higher Education--Job Opportunities--Pakistan N2 - This research aims to explore the trend of enrollment in higher education and their corresponding job opportunities in Pakistan. The research was quantitative in nature and based on enrollment data (2012-17) from 27 universities, job advertisement data (2012-17) from four newspapers, students’ perceptions of their future job and students’ employment data. 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 enrollment trend was in the subjects of Natural Sciences. Similarly, the majority of jobs were advertised for the field of Natural Sciences and fewer for the Social Sciences. There was no relationship found between the fields of study and job advertisements. On the other hand, the students’ perceived jobs were not relevant to their areas of study and on-job graduates were not working in the areas of their specialization ER -