Table 386.

Enrollment in postbaccalaureate certificate or advanced degree programs and highest degree attained by 1992–93 bachelor's degree recipients, by education characteristics: 2003

Education characteristic	Percent				Distribution by highest degree attained
	Ever enrolled	Of those ever enrolled1			Bachelor's degree or post- baccalaureate certificate	Advanced degree
		Ever completed2	Never completed, no longer enrolled	Currently enrolled		Total	Master's degree	First- professional degree	Doctor's degree
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Total	42.5	63.4	23.5	17.2	74.4	25.6	19.7	4.0	1.9
Undergraduate major
Professional fields	37.4	60.7	24.8	18.3	78.7	21.3	19.0	1.8	0.5
Business and management	27.5	65.0	22.5	15.9	83.3	16.7	14.7	1.8	0.2
Education	54.6	56.5	27.1	20.4	71.1	28.9	26.3	1.5	1.1
Health	38.0	61.8	24.1	18.4	77.9	22.1	19.4	2.1	0.6
Arts and sciences	49.3	64.8	22.4	17.3	69.4	30.7	20.8	6.3	3.6
Arts and humanities	46.6	62.7	24.2	18.6	73.0	27.1	21.5	4.3	1.2
Social and behavioral sciences	49.3	62.2	22.5	19.9	70.8	29.2	21.1	6.1	2.0
Science/math/engineering	51.1	68.4	21.2	14.0	65.7	34.3	20.1	7.7	6.6
Other	36.1	65.7	24.4	13.4	77.6	22.4	18.0	3.4	1.0
Cumulative undergraduate GPA
Less than 2.75	63.5	59.5	25.4	18.5	79.7	20.4	16.8	2.2	1.3
2.75 to 3.74	51.5	66.1	21.5	17.0	69.4	30.6	21.3	7.1	2.3
3.75 or higher	43.7	70.0	22.0	13.1	61.6	38.4	30.1	4.3	4.1
Institution granting bachelor's degree
Public 4-year	40.6	61.2	24.6	18.0	76.6	23.4	18.1	3.5	1.9
Private not-for-profit 4-year	47.1	66.3	22.5	16.0	70.0	30.0	22.7	5.3	2.0
Other	33.7	75.3	11.3	14.3	74.6	25.4	22.5	1.6	1.3
Highest degree attained as of 2003
Bachelor's degree or postbaccalaureate certificate	77.3	7.9	59.1	33.9	100.0	†	†	†	†
Master's degree	100.0	100.0	†	7.1	†	100.0	100.0	†	†
Doctor's/first-professional degree	100.0	100.0	†	2.9	†	100.0	†	67.5	32.5
Field of advanced degree3
Business and management	100.0	100.0	†	3.4	†	100.0	98.4	#	1.6
Education	100.0	100.0	†	7.4	†	100.0	98.3	0.3	1.4
Health	100.0	100.0	†	4.3	†	100.0	48.7	48.1	3.2
Arts and humanities	100.0	100.0	†	7.1	†	100.0	86.6	3.6	9.9
Social and behavioral sciences	100.0	100.0	†	9.2	†	100.0	89.4	#	10.6
Science/math/engineering	100.0	100.0	†	10.7	†	100.0	76.3	#	23.7
Other	100.0	100.0	†	4.5	†	100.0	43.5	5.1	11.4

†Not applicable. # Rounds to zero. 1 Columns are not mutually exclusive; bachelor's degree recipients who are currently enrolled could have completed a prior graduate program. 2 Includes completion of postbaccalaureate certificates. 3 Only includes respondents who completed a master's, doctor's, or first-professional degree. These graduates could also have left another graduate program without completing or be currently enrolled in another graduate program. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993/03 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93/03). (This table was prepared August 2006.)