OUTCOMES

This year’s outcomes data cover degrees, graduates, and debt. New tables this year look at student-loan debt across age groups, sizes of debt, loan statuses, and which sectors produce the most debt. Private nonprofit colleges had the highest graduation rates among students enrolled for two, four, and six years, while most of the universities that granted the most research doctorates were public institutions.

Here’s a sampling of statistics researched by The Chronicle data team.

Among bachelor’s-degree recipients, the fields that came closest to being gender-balanced (from 45 percent to 55 percent women) in 2017-18 were agriculture, architecture, business, law enforcement, natural resources and conservation, parks and recreation, and social sciences.

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The University of California at Los Angeles was one of the top three producers of bachelor’s degrees in seven disciplines, more than any institution with the most bachelor’s degrees conferred in a field.

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Of the 25 two-year public institutions with the best three-year graduation rates, four are in Kansas, four in Illinois, and three in Wisconsin.

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More outcomes data

• Colleges With the Best 4-Year Graduation Rates, 2018
• Graduation Rates for Transfer-In Students Starting in 2010-11
• Colleges With the Best 6-Year Graduation Rates, 2018
• Universities That Granted the Most Research Doctorates, Overall and by Field, 2017-18