{"id":451,"date":"2006-08-02T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/02\/what-do-our-students-do-after\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T11:42:42","slug":"what-do-our-students-do-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/02\/what-do-our-students-do-after\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Our Students Do After Graduation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the recent “careers in science” theme, Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> has a story about what people with science degrees do with their lives<\/a>, based on a new NSF report<\/a>. From the Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> piece:<\/p>\n

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Many science and engineering degree recipients continue to get use from their undergraduate studies even years after they’ve graduated, and even if they’ve switched disciplines.<\/p>\n

According to a report from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resource Statistics, in 2003, two-thirds of workers whose highest degree was a bachelor’s in a science or engineering field reported that their job was related to their degree — even if they received the degree 25 years ago or more. […]That proportion was almost three-quarters for workers who had earned a degree within the last 24 years. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds pretty good, right? The one loophole is that ellipsis, which is a pretty big ellipsis, as it turns out (below the fold):
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According to a report from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resource Statistics, in 2003, two-thirds of workers whose highest degree was a bachelor’s in a science or engineering field reported that their job was related to their degree — even if they received the degree 25 years ago or more. The report defined science and engineering as life, physical, mathematical, computer, and social sciences and engineering. That proportion was almost three-quarters for workers who had earned a degree within the last 24 years. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A little bit of poking around failed to turn up a clear statement of what “social sciences” mean in this context, but using the conventional description (which includes majors like History and Political Science and Economics), that’s a hole you could drive a truck through. This being the NSF, I suspect they probably mean stuff like Anthropology and Psychology, but I’m not entirely sure.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I don’t really have any sweeping conclusions to draw from this. It’s just some interesting data, for those who are interested in data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the recent “careers in science” theme, Inside Higher Ed has a story about what people with science degrees do with their lives, based on a new NSF report. From the Inside Higher Ed piece: Many science and engineering degree recipients continue to get use from their undergraduate studies even years after they’ve graduated, and… Continue reading What Do Our Students Do After Graduation?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}