Certain colleges are associated with high graduation rates, and certain majors are linked with high pay. But the larger story of what happens to students is more complex. One of our tables shows the career paths that liberal-arts students took across their first three jobs, and another one shows what happened to graduates in dozens of majors by midcareer.
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Architecture, business, and social sciences were among the fields that came closest to gender balance.
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Only four institutions had four-year graduation rates that exceeded 90 percent.
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Two colleges in Virginia had the highest six-year graduation rates among public institutions.
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Five of the 25 two-year public institutions with the best three-year graduation rates were in Kansas
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About two-thirds of graduates in language, philosophy, or social sciences clustered in 10 out of 72 fields soon after college.
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Average salaries for college graduates in various majors tended to be highest among workers in the 41- to 45-year-old age group.
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Graduates who majored in the liberal or performing arts started off with relatively low wages but made significant gains by midcareer.
