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Table 380. | Enrollment in postbaccalaureate certificate or advanced degree programs and highest degree attained by 1992-93 bachelor's degree recipients, by education characteristics: 2003 |
Education characteristic | Percent | Distribution by highest degree attained | |||||||
Ever enrolled | Of those ever enrolled1 | Bachelor's degree or post- baccalaureate certificate |
Advanced degree | ||||||
Ever completed2 | Never completed, no longer enrolled | Currently enrolled | Total | Master's degree | First- professional degree | Doctor's degree | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Total | 42.5 | 63.4 | 23.5 | 17.2 | 74.4 | 25.6 | 19.7 | 4.0 | 1.9 |
Undergraduate major | |||||||||
Professional fields | 37.4 | 60.7 | 24.8 | 18.3 | 78.7 | 21.3 | 19.0 | 1.8 | 0.5 |
Business and management | 27.5 | 65.0 | 22.5 | 15.9 | 83.3 | 16.7 | 14.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 |
Education | 54.6 | 56.5 | 27.1 | 20.4 | 71.1 | 28.9 | 26.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
Health | 38.0 | 61.8 | 24.1 | 18.4 | 77.9 | 22.1 | 19.4 | 2.1 | 0.6 |
Arts and sciences | 49.3 | 64.8 | 22.4 | 17.3 | 69.4 | 30.7 | 20.8 | 6.3 | 3.6 |
Arts and humanities | 46.6 | 62.7 | 24.2 | 18.6 | 73.0 | 27.1 | 21.5 | 4.3 | 1.2 |
Social and behavioral sciences | 49.3 | 62.2 | 22.5 | 19.9 | 70.8 | 29.2 | 21.1 | 6.1 | 2.0 |
Science/math/engineering | 51.1 | 68.4 | 21.2 | 14.0 | 65.7 | 34.3 | 20.1 | 7.7 | 6.6 |
Other | 36.1 | 65.7 | 24.4 | 13.4 | 77.6 | 22.4 | 18.0 | 3.4 | 1.0 |
Cumulative undergraduate GPA | |||||||||
Less than 2.75 | 63.5 | 59.5 | 25.4 | 18.5 | 79.7 | 20.4 | 16.8 | 2.2 | 1.3 |
2.75 to 3.74 | 51.5 | 66.1 | 21.5 | 17.0 | 69.4 | 30.6 | 21.3 | 7.1 | 2.3 |
3.75 or higher | 43.7 | 70.0 | 22.0 | 13.1 | 61.6 | 38.4 | 30.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 |
Institution granting bachelor's degree | |||||||||
Public 4-year | 40.6 | 61.2 | 24.6 | 18.0 | 76.6 | 23.4 | 18.1 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
Private not-for-profit 4-year | 47.1 | 66.3 | 22.5 | 16.0 | 70.0 | 30.0 | 22.7 | 5.3 | 2.0 |
Other | 33.7 | 75.3 | 11.3 | 14.3 | 74.6 | 25.4 | 22.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
Highest degree attained as of 2003 | |||||||||
Bachelor's degree or postbaccalaureate certificate |
77.3 | 7.9 | 59.1 | 33.9 | 100.0 | † | † | † | † |
Master's degree | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 7.1 | † | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | † |
Doctor's/first-professional degree | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 2.9 | † | 100.0 | † | 67.5 | 32.5 |
Field of advanced degree3 | |||||||||
Business and management | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 3.4 | † | 100.0 | 98.4 | # | 1.6 |
Education | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 7.4 | † | 100.0 | 98.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 |
Health | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 4.3 | † | 100.0 | 48.7 | 48.1 | 3.2 |
Arts and humanities | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 7.1 | † | 100.0 | 86.6 | 3.6 | 9.9 |
Social and behavioral sciences | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 9.2 | † | 100.0 | 89.4 | # | 10.6 |
Science/math/engineering | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 10.7 | † | 100.0 | 76.3 | # | 23.7 |
Other | 100.0 | 100.0 | † | 4.5 | † | 100.0 | 43.5 | 5.1 | 11.4 |
† Not applicable. # Rounds to zero. 1 Columns are not mutually exclusive; bachelor's degree recipients who are currently enrolled could have completed a prior graduate program. 2 Includes completion of postbaccalaureate certificates. 3 Only includes respondents who completed a master's, doctor's, or first-professional degree. These graduates could also have left another graduate program without completing or be currently enrolled in another graduate program. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993/03 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93/03). (This table was prepared August 2006.) |