Lately you can barely make it through a Twitter feed without reading something about the dismal job market for college graduates in China. Whether it's flocking to US universities to boost their chances of employment or using their diplomas to compete for Ayi jobs, for the undergraduate in China, the situation has gone from discouraging to just plain bad. But migrant worker bad? more ›

From the Gray Lady comes this amusing feature about the surge in Chinese undergrads at American colleges - 26,000 of them at last count. It seems that enough disposable income and desperation to find an edge in the cutthroat world of post-college jobs has led more and more parents to send their kids abroad, even before graduate school. There, in U.S. colleges both famous (Ha-fu) and less, Chinese 18-to-22-year-olds are practicing English and learning to think critically... as well as eat pepperoni pizzas, go to frat parties and "dress American." more ›

Betty Friedan would be ashamed! Shanghai women may be rumored to be independent and strong willed, but it looks like the thing they're still most afraid of is not getting married by the time they're 30. These women, allegedly past prime child birthing years, are called "3s ladies" or "sheng nu" (leftover women). It seems that rather than looking up to these 70s-born career women, more than 70% of female graduates in 17 Chinese universities think they're to be pitied. Well, if even top grads feel that way, then no wonder there's such a huge university student "mistress" problem. more ›

Earlier today, Shanghai Daily reported that suicide remained the top killer for local college students in 2009. Thirteen students in Shanghai, including one international student, took their own lives last year. more ›

Well gee, we guess this city is prohibitively expensive. Shanghai college students looking for romance can't catch a break - not from snooping Anti-PDA patrols and definitely not from their meager moneybags. According to Enovate, most college students get some allowance from their parents every month, but it's a pittance if you actually want to get romantic... more ›

Suicides are already the main cause of college deaths in Shanghai and it looks like the terrible job market is only going to make that statistic more prominent. According to the Telegraph, a wave of suicides have swept the nation as one in three of this year's graduates ahve been unable to find a job. These recent out-of-college kids are being added to the 1.5 million from last year who are still out of work. While the government has been trying to combat the unemployment rate by offering positions as teachers or low-level officials in rural areas, those jobs hardly seem worth the four years of effort and tuition fees graduates racked up, especially if they did it to escape the countryside in the first place. It's a tough situation to weather and the only suggestion we can think of is that maybe one more piece of China's grand economic stimulus should be devoted to mental health helplines. more ›

19 local college students took their lives last year, according to a Shanghai Education Commission study, one of the first of its kind to list the seven causes of death for college students. more ›

This is either incredibly genius or incredibly desperate, but Zhang Li, a college student in Hubei province, has opened up a web store on Taobao to sell her "spare time". more ›