Methods The study analyzed longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97 (N = 1031), specifically data on individuals who obtained a bachelor's degree, to examine the associations between college fields of study and trajectories of three substance use behaviors: smoking, heavy...
The gender composition of peer groups has been shown to affect marriage market outcomes, but there is no evidence on whether the share of women on college graduates across fields of study affects graduates' fertility, even though the college field-of-study peer group is a natural source of pot...
In the UK, students go off to university (or uni) instead of college. The British version of college is typically a two-year program where students either focus on learning one particular skill set (much like a vocational school) or use the time to prepare for exams so that they can adv...
Fields of studyElite collegesGraduation likelihoodsThis study examines the relationship between chosen field of study and the race gap in college completion ... Dafna,Gelbgiser,Sigal,... - 《Social Science Research》 被引量: 2发表: 2016年 No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in...
Our results also show that women put less weight on earnings compared to men when choosing a field of study, and that students who were employed prior to starting community college are more sensitive to earnings variations across fields of study than students with no prior work experience. 展开...
Gamoran, A., L. Paterson, and C. Iannelli. 2011. “Fields of Study versus Institutional Sectors as Dimensions of Stratification in Scottish Higher Education.” Paper presented at the meetings of the Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28) of the International Sociological Association, Io...
When you have avoided the Scylla of heterogeneous meanderings among elementary facts and concepts and the Charybdis of a study so narrow that you are ignorant of what is going on outside your own little comer of interest, you will have intellectual balance and perspective.® Do not take us ...
You might love art history or linguistic philosophy. 4 Accounting, IT, advertising and engineering are all sensible choices. Ask the school administrators what their most popular majors are, what job placement rates are,and whether they offer internships for seniors in their fields of study. ...
Graduate students specialize in a particular field of study. They study to become experts in this field and to learn new advances in their fields while they earn an M. A. or Ph. B. Sometimes when they get an M. C. in one field, they begin studying in another field. They hope to ...
Before declaring a major, some college students spend their first semester or even year exploring classes in different fields of study based on their skills, hobbies and interests. Academic programs vary per college or university, but common majors include art, business, communications, education, na...