A study finds that the lowest unemployment rates amongst graduates in 2008 were in the fields of health and welfare, engineering, manufacturing and construction, science, mathematics and computing (HEGESCO, 2009). Farcnik and Domadenik (2009) find that graduates in health, computing, engineering, manufacturing and construction fields have the highest likelihood of getting employed in the six months following their graduation. The number of science and technology graduates per 1 000 inhabitants aged 20-29 is significantly lower in Slovenia than the EU average (10.7 compared to 13.9, in 2008) and there are few signs of this gap closing (IMAD, 2010). Arts, humanities and social sciences graduates make up the majority of tertiary graduates. Although some incentives, such as greater availability of scholarships and grants for students going into these fields, have been introduced, the impact has been limited so far. Considering that a greater share of engineering and science graduates is associated not only with a greater innovative and technology absorption capacity of the economy but also with human capital spillovers and economy-wide productivity gains, boosting the number of graduates from these fields is a priority.