UniversePG l www.universepg.com 87 Impacts of Unemployment on Graduates in Bangladesh: A Case Study Md. Harunur Rashid 1 *, and Md. Ashraful Islam 2 ** 1 Department of Public Administration and Governance Studies, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University (JKKNIU), Trishal, Mymensingh, Bangladesh; and 2 Master of Business Administration, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. *Correspondence: harun_du.rashid92@yahoo.com (Md. Harunur Rashid, Lecturer, Department of Public Administration and Governance Studies, JKKNIU, Trishal, Mymensingh, Bangladesh). **Correspondence: aislam208@outlook.com (Md. Ashraful Islam, MBA Student, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom). ABSTRACT The study attempts to explore the impacts of unemployment; how state of unemployment is becoming the cause of social, economic, physical, personality, and psychological costs on the unemployed graduates with identification of reasons of unemployment in Bangladesh. The study area was the unemployed graduates of the social science faculty of the University of Dhaka. The study followed qualitative approach through using case study method. Capacity mismatch, corruption, incapacity of the graduates, absence of job specialization, outdated curriculum were the leading reasons of unemployment, the study identified. The impacts of unem- ployment are invariably alike on graduates-mental depression, embarrassment, socio-economic vulnerability, erosion of inner potentiality, degradation of personality and frustration. The study explored that sense of self- esteem erodes due to peer group pressure and their attitudes towards unemployed graduates. The findings significantly guide that Bangladeshi graduates, who hailed from lower and middle strata, lack in entrepreneurial spirit and are bound in cyclical craziness to secure a job primarily a government job. It recommends for further evaluation of the Bangladesh’s education systems, focus of higher education which will meet the capacity mismatch between market demands and education; and changes in attitudes-overindulgence on government job, associated with cultural factors, must be needed to minimize the vulnerabilities. Academia, learners, policy makers, scholars, policy advocates will get significant insight from the findings of the study. Keywords: Graduate unemployment, Impacts of unemployment, Bangladesh, Case study, University of Dhaka. INTRODUCTION: Higher education acts as catalytic force to obtain sustainable economic growth by providing required skills and abilities which lead further research and development as well as ensure sustainable growth (Lim, 2011). In promoting lifelong learning oppor- tunities to all, achieving inclusive quality education is an important vehicle to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); goal four set targets to obtain quality education within 2030 (UNDP, 2015). Though education draws universally global impetus as fundamental weapon to reduce unemployment, International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 172 million people remain unemployed around the world scoring 5 percent (ILO report, 2019). Though the rate of unemployment in Bangladesh remains in British Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2(5), 87-94, 2020 Publisher homepage: www.universepg.com, ISSN: 2663-7782 (Online) & 2663-7774 (Print) https://doi.org/10.34104/bjah.020087094 British Journal of Arts and Humanities Journal homepage: www.universepg.com/journal/bjah