Employment Outcomes

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Diving Into Occupation-Level Data: A Focus on Engineering

We continue our fall blog series exploring various occupations and their connection to the academic credentials being awarded by Texas colleges and universities. Previous posts have looked at broad trends in terms of projected growth occupations, as well as reviewing supply-and-demand gaps in the projected highest growth occupations (numeric and percentage). In this post, we…

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The Importance of Context in Labor Market Data and Analysis

Our fourth post in this fall blog series on connecting jobs and academic programs in Texas builds on previous work that showed Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America. Our last post focused on the “General and Operations Managers Occupation” group, finding…

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Connecting Credentials with Occupations: Calculating the Gaps

We continue with our fall blog series where we are exploring the future of jobs in Texas. Previous blog posts showed that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America, and that the “Management” occupation group is set to have the highest…

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Not All Growth is Created Equal: Occupation-level Trends in Texas

In our first post of this new series, we saw that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America. The 2.8-million job increase from the actual 13.9 million jobs in 2022 to the predicted 16.8 million jobs in 2034 places Texas…

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Top of the Heap: Texas’ Bright Future in the Job Market

With the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, most people in education view life from the perspective of new beginnings. However, for millions of students across the country, the start of the fall semester actually means their college-level course of study is coming to a close. For these students, they will be hitting the full-time…

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The Intersection of Academic Majors, Race/Ethnicity, and Lifetime Earnings

After a brief divergence to review fall 2023 enrollment in Texas, we are wrapping-up our four-part series on lifetime earnings and educational attainment. In this blog post, we explore the intersection of academic major, race/ethnicity, educational attainment and lifetime earnings, variables that were covered independently in previous blog posts. As seen throughout the posts in this series,…

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The Effect of Academic Major and Occupation on Lifetime Earnings

This blog post serves as the third entry in our series reviewing estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment level. Previous posts have reviewed general trends in terms of educational attainment levels, as well as variance across race/ethnicity categories. In this post, we shift our focus to how earnings differ based on the combination of educational…

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Financial Impact of Educational Attainment by Race/Ethnicity

in our previous blog post, we began a multi-part series looking at estimated lifetime earnings to see general trends across the spectrum of education levels ranging from “less than high school diploma” to “professional degrees.” Overall, data from the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University showed that bachelor’s graduates earn approximately $1.1 million…

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Answering the Age-Old Question: Is a College Degree Worth It?

Is a college degree worth it? This question has pervaded conversations from family dining tables to corporate board rooms to political pulpits for quite awhile in the United States. However, topics such as student loan forgiveness, state support for public institutions, higher costs of attendance, and return-on-investment have increasingly amplified the asking of this question…