Sentences with phrase «lower than the graduate»

The test scores of students seeking to enter graduate education programs are similarly low and, on average, undergraduate education majors score even lower than the graduate education applicant pool as a whole.

Not exact matches

Money: While pay in the field starts low — research assistants with BAs make less than $ 35,000 — those with graduate degrees can earn over $ 80,000, and senior advisers crack six figures.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

College graduates with debt have higher incomes than those without, but after accounting for higher taxes and student debt payments, their disposable income is ~ $ 1,100 lower.

Many students have lower scores than those who have graduated and have stable income from a full - time job, so there is a good chance that you can qualify for a better rate.

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.

Also, Lord Browne's report «Sustaining a Future for Higher Education», which recommended graduates should only begin to repay tuition fees when or if they earned # 21,000 or above, estimated that only the top 40 % of earners on average would pay back all the charges paid on their behalf and that 20 % of the lowest earners would pay less than today.

Support for Brexit was much lower among graduates than among other groups in the population, and areas with higher proportions of graduates had a correspondingly lower proportion of Leave voters.

«The top third of graduate earners would pay more than twice as much as the lowest third — that's fair and it's progressive and the Government broadly endorses this approach and will examine the details of implementation.»

The average debt among graduates of State University of New York campuses was generally lower than their private college counterparts.

«The top third of graduate earners would pay more than twice as much as the lowest third — that's fair and it's progressive.»

20 % of graduates would pay less as a result, he said, and the top third would pay more than twice as much as the lowest third.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

Led by graduate student Sandra Rincon and her advisor, Haluk Beyenal, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

However one would hope that graduate departments might do a better job in this regard than a low B!

Even so, the studies show that students with high GRE scores and high GPA do not necessarily do better as graduate researchers than those with lower metrics, Hall says.

When I graduated with a master's degree in marine biology, I could get no more than low - paying, short - term contracts.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

BUSINESS WEEK - Aug 16 - A new study by Christin Munsch, a graduate student at Cornell University, finds that men are more likely to cheat if their income is much lower than what their wife or female partner makes, while women are more likely to fool around if they make more than their husband or male partner.

A current study of 10 Linked Learning programs in California, for example, has so far found that students in these programs have dramatically lower dropout rates and slightly higher graduation rates, than the state as a whole, and are more likely to graduate with the courses required for admission to California's public universities.

Yet, research shows that students with disabilities graduate from high school at lower rates than their peers and may face particular challenges when moving into adult roles.

The economic impact on these students will be much lower than the average difference between graduate and dropout.

The Georgia Tech computer - science master's degree was the first large - scale online program of its kind: it is offered by a highly ranked department, priced much lower than its in - person equivalent, and culminates in a prestigious graduate degree.

The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released today new research showing that Teach For America (TFA) corps members teach in their low - income placement schools considerably longer than the TFA two - year obligation.

With the nation's economic recovery seemingly stuck in low gear, the need to better understand the link between learning and a career seems more critical than ever for high school students preparing to graduate and enter the next phase of their lives.

The default rate of black graduates is significantly higher than the default rate for first generation, low - income graduates (13 percent, not shown in table).

R & B argue that teachers have lower cognitive abilities than other college graduates and therefore traditional comparisons using education controls do not adequately control for ability.

While this rate is four times the 8 percent average college completion rate of low - income black and Hispanic students and slightly higher than the figure (31 %) for all U.S. students, it is still considerably below KIPP's goal of seeing 75 percent of their graduates earn a four - year college degree — comparable to the rate at which top - income quartile students graduate.

The extent of our current crisis is clear when we have less than 1 in 10 students from low - income families graduating from college by age 24.

While BA completers as a whole default at a low rate (of just six out of every 100, see Table 2), the default rate among black graduates is more than five times the rate of white graduates (21 versus 4 percent).

That does not automatically mean, however, that 3) the black - white debt gap is exacerbated due to greater enrollment in for - profit graduate schools among blacks or that borrowing at for - profit graduate schools has a lower payoff than at other schools.

As the authors of a study finding lower rates of anti-Jewish views among private school graduates than public school graduates noted, «private school teachers can lead meaningful discussions about sensitive topics, whereas public schools are constrained by rigid neutrality and are particularly sensitive to matters of religion.»

The evidence used to adduce the negative impact of undermatch is that students attending less - selective institutions than they were qualified to attend graduated at lower rates than similar students attending more - selective institutions.

If those schools were to merit a special mention regarding the debt gap, researchers and the media should be able to show that students who attended for - profit schools accumulated more debt than if they had attended a different type of school, or that a graduate degree from a for - profit school has a lower return on investment than one from another school.

Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

Three ideas stand out: Assessments aligned with CCSS must give students greater skin in the game by requiring them to pass assessments in order to graduate; tests should be linked to two or more different types of diplomas rather than imposing a rigid single standard for all; and low - income and minority students should receive far greater support than they currently do.

Or some programs might be discouraged from placing their graduates in high - needs, hard - to - staff schools because of those schools» lower - than - average test scores.

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

Stir in lack of teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment in three decades, and a growing salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.

This means that an employee who worked her way through a low - cost public college in order to minimize her borrowing would receive far less in benefits — both from her employer and the federal government — than a colleague who borrowed heavily to obtain an expensive undergraduate or graduate degree.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

These savings are magnified after high school because graduates earn higher wages, are less likely to need social and economic assistance, and have lower rates of incarceration than non-graduates.

Rochester has the country's lowest high school graduation rate for minority boys, graduating less than 9 percent of African American and less than 10 percent of Latino boys.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

Graduates of low - income, high - minority schools are much less likely to enroll in college in the fall after they finish high school than are their peers in high - income, low - minority schools, regardless of the school locale.

In 2015, Harmony Public Schools black, Latino and low - income students graduated at higher percentages than the state average.