Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective As we continue our look into the various aspects of student educational debt, we shift our focus from a Texas-only review in our previous blog posts (here and here) to review the national trends. Even though the Texas data as tracked in the 60x30TX Plan show that student loan debt indicators…
University Comparisons of Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers in Texas In our last blog post, we presented data from a recent report published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) that addressed gaps in graduation outcomes for transfer students when comparing them with native students. The data were presented as a comparison of public university…
Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers to Public Universities in Texas If you have been following recent higher education-related news and headlines, you are likely aware that the trends in student transfers are alarming, especially in terms of community college to university transfers. Within Texas, the number of first-time transfer students enrolling at public universities…
Analyzing Unemployment Rates Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Educational Attainment This blog post serves as the last of in a series of three posts that explore a dataset from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that includes unemployment rate data. The previous posts have looked at overall trends by educational attainment level and trends by race/ethnicity and…
Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex In our previous blog post, we introduced a dataset from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that includes unemployment rate data broken out by educational attainment level. That post explored the national data from the BLS’s Current Population Survey (CPS) that have been published on a…
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…