Name: College Majors And Their Graduates
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

College Majors And Their Graduates

College Majors and their Graduates

Job Opportunities, Salaries and Gender Disparities

By FiveThirtyEight [source]

About this dataset

This repository contains a comprehensive selection of lavish data and processing scripts behind the articles, graphics, and interactive experiences generated by FiveThirtyEight. With this dataset, you'll have the power to explore college programs and their graduates like never before and create stories of your own! Whether you use it to check our work or craft your own powerful visuals, we would absolutely love to know if you found it useful. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and MIT License respectively, our data is available for anyone who chooses to use it. Let us know how our resources turned out at

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Research Ideas

Create an interactive comparison tool for researching college majors and their earning potential, so that prospective students can make informed decisions about what to study.

Analyze the proportions of male and female graduates across different majors to uncover gender disparities in higher education.

Explore the correlations between major categories, average salaries earned by graduates from specific major categories, unemployment rates for those with specific majors and more – to identify trends in job opportunities for certain specialties of study

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
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Columns

File: majors-list.csv

Column name	Description
FOD1P	First-level division of the field of study (String)
Major	The specific major of the field of study (String)
Major_Category	The broader category of the field of study (String)

File: recent-grads.csv

Column name	Description
Major	The specific major of the field of study (String)
Rank	The rank of the major in terms of popularity (Integer)
Major_code	The code associated with the major (Integer)
Major_category	The category of the major (String)
Total	The total number of students in the major (Integer)
Sample_size	The sample size of the major (Integer)
Men	The number of male students in the major (Integer)
Women	The number of female students in the major (Integer)
ShareWomen	The percentage of female students in the major (Float)
Employed	The number of employed graduates from the major (Integer)
Full_time	The number of full-time employed graduates from the major (Integer)
Part_time	The number of part-time employed graduates from the major (Integer)
Full_time_year_round	The number of full-time year-round employed graduates from the major (Integer)
Unemployed	The number of unemployed graduates from the major (Integer)
Unemployment_rate	The unemployment rate of graduates from the major (Float)
Median	The median salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
P25th	The 25th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
P75th	The 75th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
College_jobs	The number of college jobs held by graduates from the major (Integer)
Non_college_jobs	The number of non-college jobs held by graduates from the major (Integer)
Low_wage_jobs	The number of low-wage jobs held by graduates from the major (Integer)

File: grad-students.csv

Column name	Description
Major_code	The code associated with the major (Integer)
Major	The specific major of the field of study (String)
Major_category	The category of the major (String)
Grad_total	The total number of graduates from the major (Integer)
Grad_sample_size	The sample size of graduates from the major (Integer)
Grad_employed	The number of graduates employed (Integer)
Grad_full_time_year_round	The number of graduates employed full-time year-round (Integer)
Grad_unemployed	The number of graduates unemployed (Integer)
Grad_unemployment_rate	The unemployment rate of graduates (Float)
Grad_median	The median salary of graduates (Integer)
Grad_P25	The 25th percentile salary of graduates (Integer)
Grad_P75	The 75th percentile salary of graduates (Integer)
Nongrad_total	The total number of non-graduates from the major (Integer)
Nongrad_employed	The number of non-graduates employed (Integer)
Nongrad_full_time_year_round	The number of non-graduates employed full-time year-round (Integer)
Nongrad_unemployed	The number of non-graduates unemployed (Integer)
Nongrad_unemployment_rate	The unemployment rate of non-graduates (Float)
Nongrad_median	The median salary of non-graduates (Integer)
Nongrad_P25	The 25th percentile salary of non-graduates (Integer)
Nongrad_P75	The 75th percentile salary of non-graduates (Integer)
Grad_share	The share of graduates in the major (Float)
Grad_premium	The difference between the median salary of graduates and non-graduates (Integer)

File: women-stem.csv

Column name	Description
Rank	The rank of the major in terms of popularity (Integer)
Major_code	The code associated with the major (Integer)
Major	The specific major of the field of study (String)
Major_category	The category of the major (String)
Total	The total number of students in the major (Integer)
Men	The number of male students in the major (Integer)
Women	The number of female students in the major (Integer)
ShareWomen	The percentage of female students in the major (Float)
Median	The median salary of graduates from the major (Integer)

File: all-ages.csv

Column name	Description
Major_code	The code associated with the major (Integer)
Major	The specific major of the field of study (String)
Major_category	The category of the major (String)
Total	The total number of students in the major (Integer)
Employed	The number of employed graduates from the major (Integer)
Unemployed	The number of unemployed graduates from the major (Integer)
Unemployment_rate	The unemployment rate of graduates from the major (Float)
Median	The median salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
P25th	The 25th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
P75th	The 75th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer)
Employed_full_time_year_round	The number of employed graduates from the major who are employed full-time year-round (Integer)

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
If you use this dataset in your research, please credit FiveThirtyEight.

Tables

All Ages

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_insights_to_college_majors_and_their.all_ages

21.01 kB
173 rows
12 columns

CREATE TABLE all_ages (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "major_code" BIGINT,
  "major" VARCHAR,
  "major_category" VARCHAR,
  "total" BIGINT,
  "employed" BIGINT,
  "employed_full_time_year_round" BIGINT,
  "unemployed" BIGINT,
  "unemployment_rate" DOUBLE,
  "median" BIGINT,
  "p25th" BIGINT,
  "p75th" DOUBLE
);

Grad Students

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_insights_to_college_majors_and_their.grad_students

39.8 kB
173 rows
23 columns

CREATE TABLE grad_students (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "major_code" BIGINT,
  "major" VARCHAR,
  "major_category" VARCHAR,
  "grad_total" BIGINT,
  "grad_sample_size" BIGINT,
  "grad_employed" BIGINT,
  "grad_full_time_year_round" BIGINT,
  "grad_unemployed" BIGINT,
  "grad_unemployment_rate" DOUBLE,
  "grad_median" DOUBLE,
  "grad_p25" BIGINT,
  "grad_p75" DOUBLE,
  "nongrad_total" BIGINT,
  "nongrad_employed" BIGINT,
  "nongrad_full_time_year_round" BIGINT,
  "nongrad_unemployed" BIGINT,
  "nongrad_unemployment_rate" DOUBLE,
  "nongrad_median" DOUBLE,
  "nongrad_p25" BIGINT,
  "nongrad_p75" DOUBLE,
  "grad_share" DOUBLE,
  "grad_premium" DOUBLE
);

Majors List

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_insights_to_college_majors_and_their.majors_list

8.54 kB
174 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE majors_list (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "fod1p" VARCHAR,
  "major" VARCHAR,
  "major_category" VARCHAR
);

Recent Grads

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_insights_to_college_majors_and_their.recent_grads

37.23 kB
173 rows
22 columns

CREATE TABLE recent_grads (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "rank" BIGINT,
  "major_code" BIGINT,
  "major" VARCHAR,
  "major_category" VARCHAR,
  "total" BIGINT,
  "sample_size" BIGINT,
  "men" BIGINT,
  "women" BIGINT,
  "sharewomen" DOUBLE,
  "employed" BIGINT,
  "full_time" BIGINT,
  "part_time" BIGINT,
  "full_time_year_round" BIGINT,
  "unemployed" BIGINT,
  "unemployment_rate" DOUBLE,
  "median" BIGINT,
  "p25th" BIGINT,
  "p75th" BIGINT,
  "college_jobs" BIGINT,
  "non_college_jobs" BIGINT,
  "low_wage_jobs" BIGINT
);

Women Stem

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_insights_to_college_majors_and_their.women_stem

12.18 kB
76 rows
10 columns

CREATE TABLE women_stem (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "rank" BIGINT,
  "major_code" BIGINT,
  "major" VARCHAR,
  "major_category" VARCHAR,
  "total" BIGINT,
  "men" BIGINT,
  "women" BIGINT,
  "sharewomen" DOUBLE,
  "median" BIGINT
);