This report provides students, parents, and others with employment, earnings, and other outcome information on graduates of Arkansas's state-supported public institutions of higher education. This report is intended to help readers make informed decisions about education and career choices. As specified in Arkansas Act 852 of 2015, information…

This survey report--the second in a series of topical reports based on the results of the 2018 mba.com Prospective Students Survey--presents the findings associated with with candidates' post-graduate management education career interests, including goals, industries, and job functions. [The following individuals from the GMAC Research Department…

Issues of postsecondary education access and attainment have a direct impact on individuals' social and economic mobility, the labor market, and the nation's ability to stay globally competitive. Sample surveys--cross-sectional or longitudinal surveys of a subpopulation of individuals--on precollege experiences and preparation, postsecondary…

When choosing a career, jobseekers often want to know which occupations offer the best prospects. Generally, occupations that have rapid job growth, many new jobs, or many job openings--and good wages--promise better opportunities. This article shows how employment in particular occupations is projected to change over the 2008-2018 decade. The…

Over the years, there has been a persistent lack of available information about the economic consequences of choosing one academic major over another. As a result, students have had little financial data on hand to help them choose between majors. No longer. This report finds that different majors have different economic value. While going to…

Explores the impact on workers of being in a nonstandard employment arrangement. Examines the distribution of workers among various arrangements and looks at aspects of work behavior and life events that may have influenced their working in a nonstandard arrangement. (Author/JOW)

This report contains 23 tables reporting the differences between men and women in lifetime labor force attachment, occupation, and earnings. The information was collected from a sample of approximately 20,000 households in May, June, July, and August 1984, as part of the Survey of Income Program Participation. The first part of this report…

Results of the National Resident Matching Program are discussed, including changes in enrollment, withdrawal, and matching patterns, data on foreign medical graduates, ratio of positions per applicant, specialization patterns, and program participation. Tabulations for each specialty are presented in numerical and percentage forms. (MSE)

Montana's industries are projected to employ 35,880 more wage and salary workers by 1995 than in 1986. If these employment projections hold true, there will be an average growth rate of about 1.5 percent per year in the state. Most of the employment growth projected to 1995 by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry will be in the service…

Patterns of medical school alumni who choose to teach in their own or other medical schools, rather than practice medicine, are examined. Schools that serve as major faculty sources are ranked and percentages are given of graduates teaching at their own schools of graduation and at other schools. (MSE)

Physics and Astronomy Degree Recipients face a variety of career and educational choices once they receive their degree. The decisions that they make are affected by a wide range of influences, such as student experiences, evolving interests, family issues, personal finances, long-term career goals, and the economic conditions they encounter. This…

Although the gap between women's and men's wages differs slightly depending on how the gap is measured, no matter how they are measured, women's earnings are below those received by men in 97% of the occupations for which data are available. Since 1979, women's earnings have been climbing when compared with men's earnings, gaining steeply during…

This report presents a profile of enrollment, employment, and institutional climate factors by gender in the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The report consists of a written analysis and 40 tables of data on which the analysis is based. Following an introduction which describes the history of the committee that produced the report, the…

Beginning with a glance at Montana's past, this publication looks to the state's future in terms of demographic patterns, employment growth, technological changes, educational needs, and workplace changes. Population, work force, and employment projections are compared with national trends. Productivity and job changing are considered, and…

The data presented, illustrated with tables and graphs, include postbaccalaureate plans of physics bachelors (including trends since l969); characteristics of bachelor's degree recipients; postbaccalaureate plans of minority group physics bachelors; type of baccalaureate plan; sources of anticipated support for first-year graduate study, 1974-77;…