Sentences with phrase «earned by graduates»

If your child is an athlete, the number of state titles won by the lacrosse team or sports scholarships earned by graduates might be compelling evidence.

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By the time she graduated, she had earned enough experience and expertise — mainly through co-ops and hackathon victories — to land a programming job with Amazon in Irvine, California.

In fact, new grads are projected to have higher salaries across all 10 degree categories ranging from business to humanities from just last year, when graduates earned an average of $ 51,022, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Airport and fast - food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are among the estimated 64 million U.S. workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour.

Governments in Canada have taken steps to make student debt easier to pay off by increasing to $ 25,000 the minimum annual income that graduates must earn before they are required to start making payments towards their debt.

It started out in 2011 by refinancing loans to high - earning graduates from top universities.

The answers vary by individual and by the type of degree earned, but conventional wisdom from operators and school administrators alike is that it's hard to go wrong by hiring an individual who's graduated from a top culinary program.

With Channing Stribling and Jourdan Lewis set to graduate, St. Juste, a Quebec native, could earn himself early playing time by getting a head start at Michigan.

After graduating, she pursued her career by attending the University of Southern California from which she earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene in 1982.

Highest earning graduates would pay more on average than under the current system or that proposed by Lord Browne while lower earning graduates would pay back less.

Lord Browne's report «Sustaining a Future for Higher Education» published in October 2010 recommended placing more of the funding burden on «successful» graduates, with repayments being made only by graduates earning # 21,000 and above.

The 2006 — 07 cohort of master's graduates earned a median salary of # 32,000 in 2010, down by 3 % compared with the salaries in 2008 of the 2004 — 05 cohort.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

He earned his Ph.D. in plant biology on the same Amherst campus where he now works and where graduate students are already represented by a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW).

Through its graduate academy, Singapore plans to send abroad and fund some one thousand students to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at top foreign universities by 2015.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

However, new spouses who graduated from college before getting married typically earn more money than those who did not and can invest in their health by purchasing such things as a gym subscription or healthier, more expensive foods.

Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign - Born PhDs in the US, by economists Jeffrey Grogger of the University of Chicago and Gordon H. Hanson of the University of California, San Diego, looks back over 5 decades of data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) to identify the factors that influence how newly graduated scientists decide where to live and work.

Here's a third: Started in 2008 by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, the Industrial Fellowships Program places citizen or permanent - resident Ph.D. s who live, earned graduate degrees, or held postdoc appointments in the state, and who lack Ph.D. - level industrial experience, in 2 - year positions with Tarheel biotech companies.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

A mathematician by training, after he graduated from Princeton in 1978 and earned a PhD in math in 1981 at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, he taught managerial economics at Harvard Business School from 1981 to 1990.

Lynne Ray graduated from Appalachian State with a B.S. in Exercise Science, soon followed by post-graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill earning her second B.S. in Physical Therapy in 1994.

Earn up to 40 college credits toward a Bachelor's or a Master's degree by graduating from Integrative Nutrition!

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jamie Foxx Riveting as Homeless Savant in Best Role since Ray Despite being raised in the «hood by a single - mom, child prodigy Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) exhibited such promise on the cello that by the time he graduated from high school in 1970 he had earned a scholarship to Juilliard.

When a child has access to a computer and broadband internet at home, they have a seven percent greater chance of graduating from college — and by extension, the potential to earn greater income over their lives relative to educational attainment.

While only 8.3 percent of all low - income students nationwide earn a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s, at City Arts and Tech High School (CAT), 72 percent of 2008 graduates and 85 percent of 2009 graduates are persisting in college into their fourth and fifth years.

For graduation rates, 93 percent of all students must graduate for a district or school to earn an A grade, and for subgroup graduation rates to improve by half the gap between their current graduation rates and 100 percent by 2025 - 26.

Last spring, 70 Charlotte - Mecklenburg graduates earned the diplomas, which are sanctioned by the National College Board.

And nationally, the economic impact is clear: A 2011 analysis by the Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that by halving the 2010 national dropout rate, for example (an estimated 1.3 million students that year), «new» graduates would likely earn a collective $ 7.6 billion more in an average year than they would without a high school diploma.

On average, COMPASS sees 50 new families a year, of which 70 percent graduate the program, 60 percent are hired by their internship site, and 80 to 90 percent earn jobs within three months of finishing the program.

Prior to the Promise, about 36 percent of the relevant population of KPS graduates earned any postsecondary credential within six years of high school graduation; the new research estimates that the Promise increased this credential attainment by over one - third, so that 48 percent of eligible KPS graduates post-Promise have earned a credential within six years of high school graduation.

The grim statistics are well known but bear repeating: In Chicago, close to 60 % of young Black men do not graduate from high school; only 6 % of Black males in the ninth grade will earn a bachelor's degree by age 25; and nearly half of Black males between the ages of 20 and 24 are both unemployed and out of school.

He was introduced by a recent college graduate from Jacksonville, Fla., who earned her high school diploma from a Christian school using a voucher.

By 2000, most states had earnings ratios near 100 percent for all aptitude groups, indicating that graduates of the most highly selective colleges earned no more as teachers than did graduates from bottom - tier schools!

New York state had the most graduates who had earned a 3 or better out of a possible 5 on an AP exam, followed by Maryland, Utah, Virginia, and California.

(Not captured by this table is the redistribution that occurred within the population of graduates: by design, low - earning graduates pay back less of their borrowed funds than do high - earners.)

Ashford graduates will be subject to additional requirements on a state - by - state basis that will include one or more of the following: student teaching or practicum experience, additional coursework, additional testing, or, if the state requires a specific type of degree to seek alternative certification, earning an additional degree.

Your national ranks tell you how your scores compare to those earned by recent high school graduates who took the ACT.

While most New York students must pass state exams in five subjects to graduate, the consortium's 38 schools have a state waiver allowing their students to earn a diploma by passing just one exam: comprehensive English.

As a side note, the Post reported this afternoon that of the 3,371 high school graduates from the City's 31 Renewal high schools, 242 earned diplomas through a new «appeals process [approved by the Board of Regents] that allows for lower scores on exams or other side - door routes... This led to a tripling of the number of students graduating using the appeals process in 2016 over 2015, city data show.»

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

And still thousands more will graduate only due to a massive $ 15 million credit recovery program that allows them to earn a C if they can demonstrate proficiency in an online course, a practice that has been called into question by some education experts who characterize it as an essentially cheap and faulty way of getting a student to graduate.

By 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma.

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School in Chicago's far south side, led by EdD Urban Education Leadership graduate Bridget de la Peña, earned a Polk Leadership Incentive grant to bolster the school's supplies and increase access to enrollment through scholarships.

Moreover, 51 % of Texas high school graduates entering community colleges need remediation and, even more significantly, based on a recent study sponsored by Houston Endowment which tracks three cohorts of 8th grade students, only 20 % of Texas students are earning any sort of postsecondary credential within six years of expected high school graduation.

The designation is earned by divisions that exceed all federal achievement objectives for two consecutive years, have all schools fully accredited for two consecutive years and graduate more than 80 percent of students with Standard or Advanced Studies diplomas.

West Point Public Schools and Poquoson Public Schools earned the Highly Distinguished Title I School Division designation by exceeding all federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) achievement objectives in English and mathematics for two consecutive years, having all schools fully accredited for two consecutive years and for graduating more than 80 percent of students with Standard or Advanced Studies diplomas.

LA Unified allows students to earn D's in the courses and still qualify to graduate, although C's are required by the universities.

Individuals who have graduated from an accredited college or university, but possess a bachelor's degree in an area other than education and have not earned a traditional teaching certificate, can still teach in the state of Tennessee by earning an alternative certification and fulfilling requirements set forth by the state.

Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools shows that 42 percent of seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered «moderately off - track,» meaning they could still earn enough credits for a diploma.