The question often asked by high school and independent counselors is something like, "What college offers degrees in <insert major name>. While this can't help you know what colleges offer a specific degree, it can tell you which colleges awarded those degrees in 2019. It can also help you see the shape of degrees awarded in the US, and even dive deeper into a specific college to see what types of degrees It's pretty straight-forward, but there are also some features you need to be aware of. If you know how to Tableau, go ahead and dive right in. The first view using the tabs across the top shows all degrees awarded by US colleges in 2019. From there, you can choose any specific combination of student and college characteristics: For instance, if you want to find which institutions award the most bachelor's degrees at public universities in the southwest, just click. If you then want to find which of those colleges offer the most degrees in History, just
I saw an opinion piece in Insider Higher Ed this week, and this statistic jumped out at me: Four-year institutions are graduating a third more women than men. It's not that the statistic was surprising, of course. Almost everyone who has looked at higher ed data knows the increasing educational attainment of women has been one of most notable trends in our profession. (Of course, the real story is the reason women didn't have higher attainment prior up until now.) If you look at this NCES Digest of Education Statistics table, and do a little math, you can see the trend for yourself. In 1970, women made up only 35% of all college enrollment; by 1988, that figure had risen to 50%, and by 2019, it was 60%. This trend mirrors bachelor's degrees as well. In 2019, about 58% of BAs were awarded to women, and 42% to men. While the trend is remarkably consistent across all Carnegie types, regions, and levels of control, the statistics between and among individual institution