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OUTCOMES

2020-2021 ALMANAC DATA HIGHLIGHTS

Jeff Goldberg/ESTO

James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
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August 16, 2020

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.


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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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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.


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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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  • 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
A version of this article appeared in the August 21, 2020, issue.
Read other items in this The Almanac, 2020-2021 package.
We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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