Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Findings: Postsecondary/College

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Postsecondary enrollment rates were higher for graduates who earned fewer CTE credits in high school than for graduates who earned more credits, and were higher for graduates who did not concentrate in CTE than for those who did concentrate in CTE.

Figure 1. Percentage of 2004 public high school graduates who enrolled in postsecondary education as of 2012, by career and technical education (CTE) participation in high school: 2012

Figure 1. Percentage of 2004 public high school graduates

NOTE: CTE includes the 12 occupational subject areas listed in figure 2. Concentrators are students who earned at least 3 credits in any one of the occupational areas in figure 2; nonconcentrators did not earn at least 3 credits in one occupational area. Standard errors for estimates can be found at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H134.asp.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002/12), Third Follow-Up Restricted-Use Data File.

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