educational data/stats: % of graduating in stem - why is there a disparity between 25% 30% or 45%? sources included

% of stem grads

2016

• 20%
• 15% in 2010

source http://www.economicmodeling.com/2017/09/01/stem-majors-accelerating-every-state-just-humanities-degrees-declining/

data source: nces.ed.gov

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2015

• 36%
• 35% in 2003

from some report? https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-11-29/report-stem-degrees-rise-but-disparities-remain

question: why exactly is there a difference?

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2015 acs survey

• 50-40% with stem majors

• 60-50% with humananites, others

source https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-US-undergraduate-degrees-are-in-the-humanities-compared-to-STEM

question: is this about current holders of stem? or % of stem grads in that year? (i cant tell..)

i think this is about current holders of stem, not % of stem grads in that year,

• because it doesnt make sense for current holders of stem to be historically more than currently

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other related things

stem % by states

• this doesnt really tell much
• better places overall are going to have more % stem basically

source http://www.economicmodeling.com/2017/09/01/stem-majors-accelerating-every-state-just-humanities-degrees-declining/

data source: nces.ed.gov

% that do not end up in stem jobs?

• '17 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html

uni with the highest % of girl stem grads

• 17.10 http://www.economicmodeling.com/2017/10/09/emsi-analysis-wsj-colleges-graduating-female-stem-workers/

% stem grads in universe

unanswered https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-many-graduates-in-STEM-fields-are-in-the-world

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note: most surprising thing i learned was that finding out such basic info was actually hard....

Submitted April 28, 2018 at 02:43PM by nixos_learner https://ift.tt/2HC7Ydr