Sentences with phrase «percent of college degrees»

Sixty percent of all college degree are now issued to women.

Not exact matches

They found that of those participants who had a bachelor's degree or higher that scored high in resilience, 8 percent were at risk for depression compared to 33 percent of college - educated individuals who scored low on the resilience scale.

Only 12 percent of Hispanic men and 21 percent of black men have a college degree by their late 20s, compared to nearly 40 percent of white men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education.

In our study, we found that the majority of on - demand workers (89 percent) had at least a two - year college degree.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

Blacks and Hispanics make up under 10 percent of U.S. college grads and collect fewer than 5 percent of degrees in CS majors, respectively.

On average, members of this group earn 32 percent less than their contemporaries with college degrees.

As LearnVest notes, the price of a college degree has soared a whopping 538 percent since 1985.

Seventy - four percent of Millennials who are interested in work flexibility have a college or graduate degree, and 20 percent are already at a manager level or higher.

While only 15 percent said that they would welcome the idea outright, another 47 percent said they would consider it and 60 percent said they would be open to employers offering education in their field in lieu of a college degree.

About three - quarters of respondents (74 percent) have a college or graduate degree, and 20 percent are already manager level or higher.

To that point, 51 percent of graduates from the classes of 2014 and 2015 said they are working in jobs that do not require their college degree, up from 41 percent of graduates who reported the same the year before that.

And, 40 percent of residents have attained a bachelor's degree, perhaps not a coincidence considering multiple colleges — including the University of Kentucky — are in Lexington.

Sixty - nine percent of employers in the survey said they expected to hire new college grads with business degrees.

More than 4,000 partners already take advantage of the Starbucks College Achievement Plan education benefit in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to earn a bachelor's degree with 100 percent tuition coverage.

About 40 percent of American college students are 25 years of age or older, indicating it is never too late to seek a college degree.

The Association of Theological Schools» accreditation allows member schools to admit up to 10 percent of their students without a college degree, and many schools do so.

One indication of this divide, as we learned last week, is that more than 50 percent of babies to mothers who don't have college degrees are born outside of wedlock, compared to less than 10 percent of babies born to mothers with college degrees.

More than two - thirds of Protestant pastors with a master's or doctoral degree (69 %) view Pope Francis as a genuine Christian and brother in Christ, compared to 42 percent of those with a bachelor's degree or no college degree.

Yet, college graduation rates lag, 70 percent of all Hispanic infants today are born to mothers with a high school degree or less, and Hispanics are over-represented among the poor in America.

49 percent of those without a college degree say homosexual behavior is a sin, compared with 35 percent who have a college degree.

Though 11 percent of college grads identified as atheists or agnostics compared to 4 percent of those with a high school diploma or less, 75 percent of those with college degrees still said that they were affiliated with a religion, compared to 76 percent of those with some college education and 78 percent with a high school diploma or less.

As economist Judith Scott - Clayton notes, «Only one - tenth of 1 percent of college entrants, and only three - tenths of 1 percent of bachelor's degree recipients, accumulate more than $ 100,000 in undergraduate student debt.

When it comes to education levels, 37 percent of people who have a high school education or less strongly agree, versus only 27 percent of people who have a college degree.

Sixty percent of pastors with no college degree believe in a pretribulation rapture.

In terms of educational attainment, 49 percent of Asian Americans have at least a college degree (this figure rises to 70 percent amongst Indian Americans) compared to 28 percent of the overall US population.

And according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be relatively small.

According to a recent report from Complete College America, the vast majority of students attending public colleges do not graduate on time; in fact, the report found that only 19 percent of full - time students earn a bachelor's degree in four years.

Thirty percent of the American population, ages 25 to 64, had a college degree that year.

And, according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree anyway, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be small.

Instead of the audit, are we supposed to just take their word on pay equity when women's median earnings still amount to only 79 percent of what men earn, even though women earn college degrees and attend graduate school at higher rates?

Approximately 30 percent of foreign - born residents and 22 percent of U.S. - born residents in the area have college degrees.

At Onondaga Community College, 59 percent of first - time, full - time degree - seeking students were placed into remedial classes in math, reading or English in the fall 2010 semester, spokesman Roger Mirabito said.

According to a 2012 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. needs to produce approximately 1 million more STEM professionals during the next decade than is currently projected, yet «fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.»

Elite schools, both liberal arts colleges and research universities, do a better job overall of retaining undergraduates in the sciences: At these institutions 54 % of women but only 39 percent of men drop out of science before attaining a degree.

Of 1,993 completed surveys, 78 percent of respondents were men, 89 percent were white, and 51 percent had college or graduate degreeOf 1,993 completed surveys, 78 percent of respondents were men, 89 percent were white, and 51 percent had college or graduate degreeof respondents were men, 89 percent were white, and 51 percent had college or graduate degrees.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported in 2012 that 45 percent of all bachelor's degrees are awarded to students who have transferred from a community college.

When a 4 percent annual discount rate is applied for future earnings, the lifetime value of college degree for some majors compared to a high school degree turns out to be slightly negative.

«People who get married before they earn a degree from a 4 - year college are about 65 percent more likely to later become obese than people who get married after college,» said Richard Allen Miech, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and the lead author of the study.

«It has been reported that in a decade our nation will need approximately 60 percent of young adults to be college - educated in order for this country to remain competitive with the rest of the world, and that as much as 85 percent of the new jobs in my metro region will require a bachelor's degree or greater,» he added.

'' a study of health - and - fitness professionals published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that trainers who had five years of experience but no college degree scored an average of 44 percent on a test of basic fitness knowledge.

«trainers who had five years of experience but no college degree scored an average of 44 percent on a test of basic fitness knowledge.»

Over 50 percent of LeagueLove couples went to colleges that were ranked similarly in terms of cost and acceptance rate — and over 80 percent had obtained the same level of degree.

With 30,000 members worldwide, approximately 95 percent of its clients are college graduates and 80 percent have post-graduate degrees.

In fact, 22 percent of female millennials and 16 percent of male millennials reported that a college degree is mandatory if you want a shot at dating them.

Only 11 percent of our residents have college degrees, and in 1995 we sent only 39 percent of our kids on to education after high school.

Over two - thirds expected to earn at least a four - year college degree, and 96 percent of respondents believed that if they work hard, they could achieve their goals.

Here's a stark fact: According to research by Georgetown's Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl, less than 10 percent of poor children now graduate with a four - year college degree.

Thirty - five percent of twelfth graders were prepared for college in reading (and 36 percent in math); eight years later, 34 percent of their age cohort had completed a college degree.