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White, Susan C. – Physics Teacher, 2015
Each year we attempt to contact each person who received a bachelor's degree in physics one year earlier to ask them what they are doing. New degree recipients typically follow one of two paths: enrolling in graduate school or entering the employment market. For the classes of 2011 and 2012 combined, nearly 60% chose to enroll in a graduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, College Science
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Goyder, John – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This paper replicates the work of Giles and Drewes from the 1990s. They showed a catch-up effect whereby graduates of liberal arts undergraduate programs, although at an early-career disadvantage compared with graduates of applied programs, had higher incomes by mid-career. Working with the Panel 5 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (2005-2010),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study
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Hawley, Carolyn E.; McMahon, Brian T.; Cardoso, Elizabeth D.; Fogg, Neeta P.; Harrington, Paul E.; Barbir, Lara A. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2014
Purpose: To examine the recent labor market indicators of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) versus non-STEM college graduates with disabilities. Method: The sample included bachelor of science (B.S.)/B.S.-level college graduates including 1,567,527 with a disability and 32,512,446 without a disability. Data were derived from…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Labor Market, Educational Indicators
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Zhang, Hongyi – International Education Studies, 2009
"Graduates employment" is always the focus of society in China. At present, the hardness of graduates employment is an important issue for the development of China's higher education, which has already aroused more attentions from the Communist Party of China and the government. Graduates' views on career-choosing, family backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Graduates, Career Planning
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Compton, Jonathan I.; Laanan, Frankie Santos; Starobin, Soko S. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
This study investigated the relationship between student characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, program of study, degree completion, and earnings outcomes for students enrolled in career and technical education (CTE) programs within the business, information technology (IT), and marketing career clusters in community colleges to determine…
Descriptors: Marketing, Information Technology, Student Characteristics, Salary Wage Differentials
Sheikh, Sabeen – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2011
Since the Graduate Management Admission Council[R] (GMAC[R]) first began conducting its Alumni Perspectives Surveys 11 years ago, several "truths" about graduate business school alumni have consistently stood the test of time: They are and remain eminently employable. They constantly rate the value of the degree highly. This year's results are…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Business Administration Education, Job Satisfaction, Graduation