(Bloomberg Business) -- Good news for the class of 2015:Recruiters filling positions this spring are planning to hire9.6 percent more college graduates this year than they didlast year, a new report shows. To get those jobs, however, ittakes being a certain type of graduate.

For a report published on Wednesday, the National Association ofColleges and Employers looked at which majors and collegedegrees will be in highest demand this year, based on a survey of1,029 employers in 21 industries, including manufacturing,social services, finance, engineering, and consulting. Below: whattheir findings can tell you about the job search.

1) Shelled out for your MBA? You might havebeen better off with a bachelor's

NACE's data suggess that, over the nextyear, people with bachelor's degrees—not those with MBAsor Ph.Ds—will be in highest demand among employers. Nearly 82percent of employers said they want bachelor's degreeholders. Only 17.3 percent said they want peoplewith master's degrees, and just 10.6 percent said they wantMBAs—less than the share that want people with associatedegrees (13.9 percent). This shows there are more jobs forBAs, not necessarily better ones. And the pool of people competingfor those bachelor's degree-requiring jobs is also larger than,say, the number of people with Ph.Ds.

2) If you majored in creative writing, you mightbe all right.

Employers most want to hire engineering majors, followed bybusiness majors, computer science majors, and accounting majors,NACE's data show. No big surprises there. But the stereotype ofcreative writing majors heading straight for the bottom of theemployment pool doesn't quite bear out. Rather, liberal artsdegrees such as humanities and communications fell somewherebelow the middle of the pack. The degree in lowest demand washealth services—perhaps because most employers in the health- carefields want to see you earn additional degrees orcertifications before they'll hire you.

3) Employers are posting more jobs, butapplicants' résumé game is weak

In the last year, employers said they put up an average of148 postings each—a huge jump from the 2013-14 hiring cycle,when they said they put up 99 postings apiece. Yet jobapplicants haven't ramped up their "To Whom it May Concern" e-mailsat the same rate. In fact, the number of applications perposting decreased slightly in the year spanning2014-2015, to 23.4, from 28.4 in 2013-14. If the trend keeps up,graduates may be lucky enough to face slightly less competition forjobs this year.

4) Many more employers are gearing up toexpand hiring than are slowing down

It looks as if the economic recovery has given businessesthe chance to plump up their hiring budget. Nearly 56 percentof employers plan to increase the number of people they hire thisyear, up from 48 percent last year. Just under 12 percentplan to keep hiring levels the same, and 32 percent arecutting back on the number of hires.

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