Business: Double majors in college have better earnings security
Study suggests the path to job security is cross training - and having degrees or double majors in 2+ subjects.
Demographics, Education: Nearly half of Americans think college education is now less important
With the shrinking young cohort, labor is in short supply. A college degree is no longer needed to compete for great jobs.
Demographics, Education: CA schools to see 12% enrollment decline in next ten years
Ouch - California's shrinking school enrollment.
Business: Do employers really not care what degree you have?
Half of employed college grads say they work in fields that require no college degree, so yes, kind of. But that's not the thrust of this story.
Demographics, Business: Veterinarians needed
About 70% of practicing veterinarians are, today, female, and over 80% of veterinary students are female. We don't hear about these gender imbalances.
Global, Business, Education: To improve salary and workplace competitiveness, learn another language
International/global experiences and skills, and speaking another language, increase opportunities and salary.
Education: Educational attainment over time
Did you know that as of about 1970, half of U.S. adults had not finished high school? Or that today, 4x more people have a 4 year degree than did…
Education: The mysteries of loan forgiveness
Random X post celebrates his $8k education loan paid off by taxpayers. He attended expensive Uni, owns a $560k home and is Comm Director for a Congressional Representative.
Education, demographics: Even graduate degree programs are flat topping
With nearly half of Master degrees having a negative ROI, university grad programs are about to get hit hard, particularly due to the smaller young population.
Demographics: University of Memphis enrollment decline
The fertility rate collapse is starting to show up in college admissions, as expected.
Demographics: No one rides a bike to school anymore
As kids, we rode our bikes to school – and everywhere else. I continued to ride to college and my work, all the way up to about age 30 (then…
Education Demographics: 1 in 3 college students are immigrants or children of immigrants
nearly 30 percent of all students enrolled in colleges and universities in 2018, hailed from immigrant families, up from 20 percent in 2000. …. These students, most of them nonwhite,…
Education: In many countries a Bachelor’s degree is 3 years, not four
In the U.S. students are required to take “general education” or “core” requirements – and 4 years or more becomes the standard duration of an undergraduate degree. In much of…
I completed the requirements for an M.S. in software engineering
This is a post from January 2013 that I never previously published. I completed the M.S. in software engineering in December 2012.
Education: Bachelor degrees by sex and major
Bachelor degrees, by sex, and major – this is just a partial list. Chart of the Day: Female Shares of Bachelor’s Degrees by Field, 1971 to 2019 | American Enterprise…