Your parents always encouraged you to do well in school, so that you could go to a good college. Once there, they would encourage you to study hard so that you could get a good job. Or at least that was what was supposed to happen. But in the midst of a recession that’s been going on for awhile, most news that we see says that jobs are being lost, not gained.

So what does it matter if you have a college degree or not, if all we hear is that there aren’t that many jobs out there?

Our content partner OnlineColleges, has some good news, though. The numbers pretty much speak for themselves. While workers with a college degree gained 187,000 jobs during the recession, workers without a college degree lost 7.35 million jobs. Check out the infographic below for more information:

Compiled By: OnlineColleges.net