Majors and Distribution

Just poking around the National Center for
Education Statistics
website:

<a href=http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/condition98/c9829a01.html target=new>http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/condition98/c9829a01.html</a>

In 1995, the following percentages of degrees were
awarded in given fields:

Business management:
20.2%
Social/Behavioral Sciences: 17.3%
Humanities: 16.6%
Other
Technical/Professiona: 13.3%
Education: 9.1%
Health sciences:
6.9%
Engineering: 5.4%
Life sciences: 4.8%
Computer &
Informational Sciences: 2.1%
Physical Sciences:
1.7%
Engineering Technologies: 1.4%
Mathematics:
1.2%

Translating this into a 25/25 packet:
5/5 Business
Management
4/4 Social Sciences (psychology, SocSci,
History)
4/4 Humanities (Area and ethnic studies, English
language and literature/letters, Foreign languages,
Liberal/general studies, Multi/interdisciplinary studies,
Philosophy and religion, Theology, Visual and performing
arts)
3/3 Other Technical/Professional (Agriculture,
Architecture, Communications, Communication technology, Home
economics, Law, Library/archival sciences, Military
sciences, Parks and recreation, Precision production
trades(?), Protective science(??), Public administration and
services, Transportation and material moving
2/2
Education
6/6 Science, heavy on biology and with no more than 1
question on math. 

I'll mull over this a bit more
later.

Edmund

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