Is College Worth It?
Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
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Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
An influx of students from low-income families and students of color at U.S. colleges and universities has almost exclusively fueled the growth in the overall number of undergraduates.
Today’s 6- to 21-year-olds are already America’s most racially and ethnically diverse generation – and more of them are heading to college than previous generations.
Millennial workers are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults.
Attention, parents of third graders: If demographic patterns hold, your children could be in the largest U.S. college freshman class ever.
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