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                                       |   Ever   |  Ever  |  Ever  |  Ever  | Enrolled
          Undergraduate major          | enrolled |enrolled|enrolled|enrolled| in degree
            field of study             |  since   | full-  |  and   |and not |  program
                                       |graduation|  time  |employed|employed|  beyond
                                       |          |        |        |        |bachelor's
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                   1                   |    2     |   3    |   4    |   5    |     6
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All bachelor's graduates...............|       35 |     17 |     24 |     11 |        24
                                       |----------|--------|--------|--------|-----------
Professional/technical fields .........|       28 |     17 |     22 |      6 |        18
  Engineering .........................|       32 |     18 |     23 |      9 |        23
  Business and management .............|       21 |     13 |     16 |      5 |        12
  Health professions ..................|       27 |     16 |     22 |      5 |        20
  Education ...........................|       38 |     27 |     33 |      5 |        29
  Public affairs and social services ..|       35 |     13 |     28 |      7 |        22
                                       |          |        |        |        |
Arts and sciences fields ..............|       46 |     17 |     28 |     18 |        34
  Biological sciences .................|       64 |     17 |     30 |     34 |        47
  Physical sciences, mathematics,      |          |        |        |        |
    and computer sciences .............|       40 |     17 |     24 |     16 |        30
  Psychology ..........................|       50 |     19 |     31 |     20 |        40
  Social sciences .....................|       42 |     16 |     28 |     14 |        30
  Humanities ..........................|       43 |     17 |     28 |     15 |        28
                                       |          |        |        |        |
Other\1\...............................|       29 |     15 |     21 |      9 |        18
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Highest degree graduate expects        |          |        |        |        |
  to obtain                            |          |        |        |        |
                                       |          |        |        |        |
  Bachelor's degree....................|       15 |     10 |     13 |      3 |         3
  Master's degree......................|       31 |     18 |     24 |      6 |        20
  Doctor's degree......................|       58 |     21 |     36 |     22 |        49
  First-professional degree............|       68 |      9 |     27 |     41 |        61
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1 Includes agriculture and natural resources, architecture and environmental design, area and ethnic studies, consumer/personal/miscellaneous services, home economics, industrial arts, law, liberal/general studies, library and archival sciences, military sciences, multi/interdisciplinary studies, personal and social development, and trade and industrial.

NOTE.--Data are from a sample survey of recent college graduates. Notes on methodology are included in the Guide to Sources. Data exclude bachelor's degree recipients from U.S. Service Schools. Deceased graduates and graduates living at foreign addresses at the time of the survey are not included.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Recent College Graduates, 1991" survey. (This table was prepared May 1993.)