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"Condition of Education 2007 "
The number of bachelor's degrees awarded increased by 33 percent between 1989-90 and 2003-04, while the number of associate's degrees increased by 46 percent. Minority students have accounted for about half of the growth in associate's and bachelor's degrees.
Between 1997 and 2005, the number of high school students taking AP exams more than doubled to about 1.2 million, with the numbers of Blacks and Hispanics growing faster than those for other racial/ethnic groups. Students who eventually dropped out of high school were behind their peers who graduated on time in the total number of credits they earned in their freshman and sophomore years, as well as the amount they earned in English, mathematics, and science courses. Year-to-year change shows that credit accrual declined for dropouts, putting them further behind. The rate of college enrollment immediately after high school increased from 49 percent in 1972 to 69 percent in 2005. Adults ages 25-34 with a bachelor's degree or higher have higher median earnings than their peers with less education, and these earnings differences increased from 1980 to 2005. The average total price for 1 year of full-time graduate education ranged from $21,900 for a master's degree program to $41,900 for a first-professional degree program. Interested in learning more? Read findings from"The Condition of Education 2007".
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The Condition of Education 2007, the latest edition of NCES's annual congressionally mandated progress report that provides an annual statistical portrait of education in the United States. The 47 new indicators included in the report cover all aspects of education, from student achievement to school environment and from early childhood through postsecondary education.
Comparing 1982 and 2004, high school graduates earned an average of 4.0 versus 4.3 credits in English, 2.7 versus 3.6 credits in mathematics, and 2.2 versus 3.2 credits in science.
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