| Title: | Web Tables—Characteristics of Certificate Completers With Their Time to Certificate and Labor Market Outcomes |
| Description: | These Web Tables provide estimates of certificate credit requirements, certificate completion times, and labor market outcomes for undergraduate students who entered postsecondary education for the first time in 2003–04 and whose postsecondary transcripts indicated the first credential earned by spring 2009 was a subbaccalaureate certificate (certificate completers). The results are based on data from about 1,700 certificate completers representing a population of approximately 311,000 students in the 2003–04 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, Second Follow-up (BPS:04/09), a nationally representative sample of undergraduates first interviewed during the 2003–04 academic year and followed over a period of 6 academic years. |
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| Cover Date: | January 2013 |
| Web Release: | January 24, 2013 |
| Publication #: | NCES 2013157 |
| Center/Program: | NCES |
| Authors: | David Radwin and Morgan Matthews, MPR Associates |
| Type of Product: | Tables |
| Survey/Program Areas: |
Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) |
| Keywords: |
Beginning students in postsecondary education
Career/Technical Education Coursetaking/transcripts Educational attainment Higher education Longitudinal studies Occupational programs Postsecondary education • outcomes
Postsecondary Education Transcripts (PETS)Preparation for work Remedial education Student outcomes Vocational education |
| Questions: |
For questions about the content of this Tables, please contact: Aurora M. D'Amico. |
