A new report estimates that California will have a shortage of 1 million college graduates by 2025.

The report by the Public Policy Institute of California suggests that employers would have to move jobs outside the state to find qualified workers, or bring in employees from out of state to fill positions here.

The problem, according to the institute, is that population growth has outpaced the expansion of state schools, leaving students with limited options for college. With many highly-educated older Californians from the Baby Boomer generation set to retire, the demand for jobs requiring higher education are bound to increase, according to the institute.

While 1 million may seem like a large number, Lisa Loop, co-director of the Teacher Education Program at Claremont Graduate University said it isn't ridiculous.

"We have a shortage of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math," she said. "In the past math and science were thought as subjects for the talented and elite and so we have a large scare of failures in these areas, but I believe everyone can learn math and science."

Loop said colleges are missing that whole group of individuals and that problem starts at the public education level and moves into the bachelor level.