Just the Stats: Top 100 Popular Disciplines By Race, Gender
As encouraging as the numbers of minorities earning advanced degrees may have been, gender differences across racial lines continue to persist at the master’s and doctoral levels. In the print edition of the Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers, released July 12, Diverse reviews the increase and decrease in minority students at the graduate level. The new online tables look at the popularity of various disciplines by race and gender. With the additional online analysis, we review how gender within ethnic groups affects the popularity of each discipline, and the patterns associated with that.,a href=”http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_8441.shtml”>
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
It would be interesting and (comparatively helpful) to see where most of the African American students received their advanced degrees. How many from HBCUs vs. majority White Universities.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:47 pm
This is an interesting set of findings, but omits discussion of WHY this increase occurred. While the Louis Stokes Alliance programs have been successful according to the evaluation done by the Urban Institute, what precise activities account for “success.” A further examination of local evaluations and program descriptions would be very helpful. Also, in the individual tables, URM is a compound which would seem to include Asian American students–is that right?
Despite what may seem like grumbling, I really appreciate your short reports.
Thank you!
July 27th, 2007 at 5:33 am
This data, in addition to that for LSAMP, demonstrate that these types of programs work! The real issues are that : 1) there are too few of these to make a real difference in the under representation and 2) they are rapidly becoming fewer in number due to attacks by groups such as The Center for Equal Opportunity. Moreover, in light of the fact that the playing field is far from level even with these programs being active in the past, the future for changing the under representation of minorities in STEM programs and careers unfortunately is dim.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I am pleased to see that there is so much information available here for the education of STEM. Although I would like to see the information presented with more effective writing ability.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I am curious to learn more about the research conducted, which generated the reporting. Was there a correlation matrix developed to demonstrate degree attainment in relation to outcomes, such as what exactly did these individuals find themselves doing career wise after earning the graduate degrees. For example, Did the MBAs go straight to the job market and outpace PhD in earnings? Did any of the Master level graduates continue on to doctoral degrees, and by what demographic groups? Does your study offer reasons why individuals chose the discipline they did, such as AA women in education doctoral programs?