Differences in Employment Rates by Educational Attainment Levels For the past few months, we have camped out in the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset, analyzing average earnings of bachelor’s degree-holders from data partner institutions in a variety of ways. The previous posts can be accessed at the data blog home page. While those posts…
Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Masters Institutions The past six blog posts have been built upon the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset. While these entries in no way exhaust the exploratory paths that could be taken through the PSEO data, this blog post will serve as our series finale of sorts…
Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Doctoral Institutions For the past several blog entries, we have been rummaging through the data storehouses of the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset, exploring average overall earnings for bachelor’s degreeholders by institution type, as well as the degree to which bachelor’s graduates are either non-employed or…
Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Multi-State Trends If you have been following the progression of our blog posts, the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) data has served as the primary content driver in the the past four blog entries. The posts in May (05/01/2021 and 05/15/2021) introduced average earnings for bachelor’s degreeholders by Carnegie…
Exploring Employment Trends in the US Census Bureau PSEO Data: Masters Institutions The release of the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) data has provided new information related to how much graduates are earning, where and in which industries they are employed, and to what extent graduates are either not employed or are marginally…
Exploring Employment Trends in the US Census Bureau PSEO Data: Doctoral Institutions Throughout the past few months, we have explored student outcomes at various points in the higher education lifecycle: retention and persistence, graduation, and post-graduation earnings. For the blog posts in June, we will continue utilizing the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)…
US Census Bureau Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO): Master’s Universities Our previous post in this multi-part series on student outcomes introduced a relatively new data source from the US Census Bureau: Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). These data provide outcome variables that include average earnings for bachelor’s and master’s degree graduates, as well as “flow” data that…
US Census Bureau Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO): Doctoral Universities In the lifecycle of colleges and universities, the month of May has historically marked the end of many students’ journey through their academic pursuits and into the beginning of their careers. While most attention to student outcomes within higher education has remained focused on retention/persistence and…
Using IPEDS Outcome Measures to Explore Graduation Rates in Texas In our previous blog post, we introduced the relatively new Outcome Measures (OM) calculated by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as a means for comparing institutions across a combination of three variables: Pell grant status, prior college experience (first-time or transfer), and attendance…