Sentences with phrase «more than a high school degree»

According to the latest U.S. Survey of Earned Doctorates, the proportion of new Ph.D. graduates who come from families where neither parent has earned more than a high school degree has fallen from about 31 % in 1992 to just under 20 % in 2012, while the proportion of graduates from families with at least one parent with an advanced degree has climbed; it was about 33 % in 1992, and it is now above 40 %.

Meanwhile, 42 percent of the nation's 27 - year - olds have no more than a high school degree.

President Obama in his State of the Union address warned that over the next decade nearly half of all new jobs would require more than a high school degree.

«In the late 1970s, the median wage was 40 % higher for college graduates than for people with more than a high school degree; now the wage premium is about 80 %,» it says.

Some positions may even be entry - level positions requiring no more than a high school degree and some customer service experience.

To work at the position of a retail stock clerk, it is not really important to possess more than a high school degree.

Consumers» expectation of missing a minimum debt payment in the next three months grew again, according to the survey, this time to 14.9 percent from 14.4 percent in October, and especially in households where the head holds no more than a high school degree.

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Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

That's why PayScale surveyed 2.3 million graduates of more than 2,400 colleges and universities to report their pay, major, highest degree earned, and associate's or bachelor's school name where appropriate.

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

Overall, higher education still translates into better wages — those with a bachelor's degree, on average, earn more than 30 per cent more than high school graduates.

After surveying 400 college and high school students and 400 parents, more than half of the people were in favor of using an ISA over a private student loan to pay for their degrees.

The study explores «middle - skills» jobs, those that require more than a high school diploma and less than a bachelor's degree.

Murray draws on those studies, but in Coming Apart, Fishtown, like Belmont, is shorthand for a statistical cohort: people with blue - collar or low - level office jobs and no academic degree more advanced than a high - school diploma.

In their research, economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz determined that an individual who had a college degree could expect to make $ 1.2 million more from ages 22 - 64, than their peers who have just a high school diploma.

It takes more than a decade to get a high school diploma; it takes an additional four years for most people to get a college degree; it takes nearly a quarter - century to become a great physician.

Now in its ninth year, the Best Teen Chef Competition awards more than $ 250,000 in tuition scholarships for degree programs at The Art Institutes to high - school seniors in the U.S. and Canada.

As the chart below shows, a 35 - year - old woman with less than a high - school degree, for instance, was more than five times as likely to be both never married and a mother than a woman with a bachelor's degree or more.

Mass incarceration plays a role here: More than half of black men without a high school degree do some jail time before they turn 30.

According to 1990 census data, more than one - third of all Arlington Heights residents have completed high school and have received a bachelor's degree from college.

For instance, white and Latino fathers with bachelor's degrees earned more than twice as much as their counterparts with only a high school degree.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

And, although more than one - third of the residents 25 and older had attained a Bachelor's Degree or a higher level of education, more than one - quarter of local residents in the same age group had not obtained a high school diploma.

However, half of the jobs in New York State are middle - skill jobs, requiring more than a high school diploma and less than a four - year degree.

Truck drivers, welders and information technology specialists require more than a high school education but less than a college degree.

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.

In general, those with college degrees and higher levels of household income are significantly more likely to be married than those with high school diplomas and those living in households with more modest levels of income.

Looking at basic demographic variations, our survey showed that those with college degrees and higher levels of household income are significantly more likely to be married than those with high school diplomas and those living in households with more modest levels of income.

In fact, he shows that student non-response on surveys in grades 7 - 9 is more strongly predictive of graduating high school and completing a bachelors degree than math and science standardized test results.

Even when a recent graduate has trouble landing a good job right after collecting his degrees, he can expect to earn as much as a million dollars more over the course of his career than someone whose education ended with a high school diploma.

For example, completing a course beyond Algebra II in high school more than doubles the odds that a student who enters college will complete a bachelor's degree.

A teacher in an area with a high degree of private school choice is 10 percent more likely to have majored in math or science than a teacher in an area with minimal private school choice.

Traditional higher education schools are competing with blue - collar professions, schools that offer particular certifications in lieu of college degrees, and prospects have many more school choices than years gone by.

According to the 2006 Graduation Project report, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a college grad earned 50 percent more than someone with only a high school degree in 1980.

The remaining 65 percent of jobs will require more than a high school education, but less than a college degree.

In the past two years, more than 95 percent of Hidalgo students completed high school, and, starting with the class of 2010, students can earn enough college credits to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree.

Employers in the United States have long struggled to fill certain jobs — particularly technician - level jobs that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less time to complete than a four - year college degree program.

Now more than ever, men and women have equal needs to earn degrees past high school, but far more women than men are getting that message.

For example, in 2012, more than 85 percent of students whose parents had a bachelor's degree or higher had a parent who attended a school event, compared with 48 percent for students whose parents had less than a high school education.

Although rural students are more likely to obtain a high school diploma than urban students, they are significantly less likely to attend college or earn a degree.

Research suggests that participants in early college high schools are significantly more likely than other underserved students to graduate high school, enroll in college immediately after high school and earn a degree.

70 % of people in top 10 % income bracket have at least a bachelor's degree and someone with a college degree makes 73 % more over a lifetime than someone with only a high school degree.

Women — who make up more than half the teaching workforce in middle and high schools — hold fewer than 15 % of all undergraduate engineering degrees [iv] and are choosing STEM majors and careers in decreasing numbers [v].

The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree.

Over a lifetime, individuals with a bachelor's degree earn 84 percent more than those with only a high school diploma.

A high school education in the 1890's provided a more solid understanding of mathematics, geography and literature than does most college degrees today.

With approximately 250 students and more than thirty full and part - time faculty, the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education (HDOSE) at the University of Florida offers master's, specialist, and / or doctoral degrees in the program areas of Counselor Education, Educational Leadership, Higher Education Administration and Student Personnel in Higher Education, and Research and Evaluation Methodology.

Those with a college degree can expect to earn over 60 % more in the course of their lifetime than those with a high - school diploma, according to U.S. Census data.

Secondly, more undocumented students have the opportunity to pursue a college degree than we might expect: in 2004, UNICEF estimated that 65,000 undocumented children who have lived in the United States for five years or longer graduate from U.S. high schools each year.