Sentences with phrase «declining number of graduates»

This growth, reflecting the high interest of students in the astronomical sciences and the job opportunities that exist, contrasts with the declining number of graduates in physics (down by 11 percent) and chemistry (down by 6 percent) over the same period (NSF, 1999b).

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The article also points out the number of humanities graduates has slightly declined.

Emsi's article STEM Majors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

Between 2002 and 2006, the number of female Ph.D. graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D. graduates — but in 2006, the number of women earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men earning degrees started to decline.

On the other hand, it appears, from firsthand knowledge gleaned from my seat on the department's admissions committee, that the number of applicants to graduate programs has declined precipitously.

International student numbers in the U.S. dropped between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2017, with the largest declines seen at the graduate level in computer science (13 percent decline) and engineering (8 percent decline).

As the nation's economy generated more and more well - paying jobs for the brightest college graduates, the number and quality of people entering the teaching profession began to decline.

If this effect is sustained, it will increase the number of graduates, make pathways (including teaching) seem more attractive and possibly break what is currently a vicious cycle to decline.

Again, these declines are occurring at a time when the economy and an increasing number of occupations are requiring graduates with advanced science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.

The number of «high school dropout factories,» where less than 60 percent of students graduate, is declining rapidly.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Last year, we reported that the number of «dropout factories» — those high schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students — had declined from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,746 in 2008.

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

The decline in the number of students interested in an education career is even more striking given the fact that the total number of ACT - tested graduates has increased substantially — up by 18 percent — during the same four - year period.

There's a storm brewing, a vortex created by an exponential growth in technology and the sharp decline in the number of IT graduates entering the UK workforce.

Since the dot - com boom in 2000, the percentage of women graduating in computer science declined and never really picked back up despite the increasing number of computer science graduates.

Last year, we reported that the number of «dropout factories» — those high schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students — had declined from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,746 in 2008.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.