Facts about the American Education System

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• Facts about the American Education System

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Quick Facts

• College Enrollment
• Total 17.5 million
• 7.5 million males
• 9.9 million females

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Students Earning College Degrees
2005  
Male Female
All Degrees 2850
Associates (1,000) 268 429

Bachelor's (1,000) 613 826

Masters's (1,000) 234 341

First professional (1,000) 44 43

Doctoral (1,000) 27 26

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Total expenses 4 year institutions

• 2000
• Public 8,653 Private 21,856
• 2010
• Public 15,014 Private 32,790
• http//nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id76

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Tuition Increases

• From 2000 to 2010
• Public institution prices increased 73
• Private institution prices increased 50

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Educational Attainment

• 1960
• 41 high school graduates or higher
• 7.7 college graduates or higher
• 2009
• 86.7 high school graduates or higher
• 29.5 college graduates or higher
• http//huebler.blogspot.com/2011/01/usa.html

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US versus SC

• US
• 86.7 high school graduates or higher
• 29.5 college graduates or higher
• SC
• 81.7 high school graduates or higher
• 25.0 college graduates or higher

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Why get a degree?

• Money

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The NACE Summer 2007 Salary Survey reports the
following average starting salaries for various
college degrees

• MajorStarting SalaryIncrease
• Chemical engineering59,361
• Computer science56,201
• Electrical engineering55,292
• Information sciences50,852
• Accounting46,718
• Marketing40,161
• Political science34,590
• History33,768
• English32,553
• Sociology32,033
• Psychology31,631

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• ITS YOUR MAJOR, NOT YOUR
• ALMA MATER

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Why get a degree?

• Job Security

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Why get a degree?

• Social Status
• Job Enjoyment
• Career Options
• Meet people
• Surprisingly, 83 percent of the women surveyed
  said getting married was one of their most
  important goals, and 63 percent said they
  believed they would meet their future spouse in
  college.
• However, the report said this is a sobering
  statistic considering there are an average of
  only 79 men per 100 women on college campuses.
• Avoid Working
• Gain Maturity

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Is it always worth it to go to college?

• Costs benefit analysis

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Why are more women attending school than
men?Why are African American females the
largest growing group in American institutions?

• Opportunity costs

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Employers And Other Entities Covered By EEO
Laws Discriminatory Practices Under Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), it is
illegal to discriminate in any aspect of
employment, including hiring and firing
compensation, assignment, or classification of
employees transfer, promotion, layoff, or
recall job advertisements recruitment testing
use of company facilities training and
apprenticeship programs fringe benefits pay,
retirement plans, and disability leave or other
terms and conditions of employment.
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Discriminatory practices under these laws also
include harassment on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, disability, or
age retaliation against an individual for
filing a charge of discrimination, participating
in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory
practices employment decisions based on
stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities,
traits, or performance of individuals of a
certain sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic
group, or individuals with disabilities and
denying employment opportunities to a person
because of marriage to, or association with, an
individual of a particular race, religion,
national origin, or an individual with a
disability. Title VII also prohibits
discrimination because of participation in
schools or places of worship associated with a
particular racial, ethnic, or religious group.
Employers are required to post notices to all
employees advising them of their rights under the
laws EEOC enforces and their right to be free
from retaliation. Such notices must be
accessible, as needed, to persons with visual or
other disabilities that affect reading.