ERIC Number: ED578434
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 2
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Beginning College Students Who Change Their Majors within 3 Years of Enrollment. Data Point. NCES 2018-434
Leu, Katherine
National Center for Education Statistics
The article examines the extent to which first-time associate's and bachelor's degree students change their majors within 3 years of enrollment. Rates of change in major are shown for students by degree program and by original declared field of study. Data in this report are from the 2012/14 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/14), a nationally representative study of about 25,000 students who enrolled in postsecondary education for the first time in the 2011-2012 academic year. These analyses are restricted to students who had ever enrolled in an associate's or bachelor's degree program and declared a major within 3 years of initial enrollment. Students with declared majors represent a majority in both associate's (94 percent) and bachelor's (97 percent) degree programs (NCES 2017).
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Decision Making, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Change
National Center for Education Statistics. Available from: ED Pubs. P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Tel: 877-433-7827; Web site: http://nces.ed.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Statistics (ED)
IES Funded: Yes
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IES Publication: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2018434