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Table P183. Percentage distributions of credential-seeking undergraduate students across student sex, across parents’ highest level of education, and across student age groups, by credential goal and curricular area: 2015–16 |
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Credential goal and curricular area | Sex | Parents’ highest level of education1 | Age (as of 12/31/15) | Average age | ||||||||||||||||
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Male | Female | High school or less | Some college, no bachelor’s degree |
Bachelor’s or higher degree |
Younger than 25 |
25–34 | 35 or older | |||||||||||||
All credential-seeking students | 43.5 | 56.5 | 23.8 | 31.8 | 44.3 | 63.8 | 22.0 | 14.2 | 25.6 | |||||||||||
Subbaccalaureate credential | 42.3 | 57.7 | 29.7 | 35.8 | 34.5 | 55.1 | 27.0 | 17.9 | 27.0 | |||||||||||
Occupational education | 42.0 | 58.0 | 31.9 | 35.5 | 32.5 | 50.6 | 29.4 | 19.9 | 27.7 | |||||||||||
Academic education | 42.5 | 57.5 | 23.8 | 36.2 | 39.9 | 65.1 | 21.7 | 13.2 | 25.4 | |||||||||||
Undecided | 44.4 | 55.6 | 31.6 | 37.1 | 31.3 | 63.5 | 20.5 | 16.0 | 26.0 | |||||||||||
Certificate | 40.6 | 59.4 | 32.0 | 34.7 | 33.4 | 44.0 | 31.5 | 24.6 | 29.3 | |||||||||||
Occupational education | 40.4 | 59.6 | 32.8 | 34.8 | 32.4 | 43.9 | 32.1 | 24.1 | 29.1 | |||||||||||
Academic education | 41.6 | 58.4 | 22.2 | 34.6 | 43.2 | 47.1 | 27.2 | 25.7 | 30.1 | |||||||||||
Undecided | 46.0 | 54.0 | 42.3 | 26.7 | ! | 31.0 | 32.0 | 23.7 | 44.3 | 34.8 | ||||||||||
Associate’s degree | 42.6 | 57.4 | 29.2 | 36.0 | 34.8 | 57.4 | 26.0 | 16.5 | 26.5 | |||||||||||
Occupational education | 42.5 | 57.5 | 31.7 | 35.7 | 32.6 | 52.6 | 28.7 | 18.7 | 27.2 | |||||||||||
Academic education | 42.6 | 57.4 | 24.0 | 36.3 | 39.7 | 66.3 | 21.3 | 12.4 | 25.1 | |||||||||||
Undecided | 44.2 | 55.8 | 30.5 | 38.1 | 31.4 | 66.5 | 20.2 | 13.2 | 25.1 | |||||||||||
Bachelor’s degree | 44.9 | 55.1 | 17.5 | 27.6 | 54.9 | 73.3 | 16.5 | 10.1 | 24.1 | |||||||||||
Occupational education | 47.4 | 52.6 | 18.5 | 28.5 | 52.9 | 69.3 | 18.3 | 12.4 | 24.8 | |||||||||||
Academic education | 40.1 | 59.9 | 15.6 | 25.9 | 58.5 | 80.3 | 13.6 | 6.1 | 22.8 | |||||||||||
Undecided | 45.7 | 54.3 | 19.5 | 20.8 | 59.7 | 89.3 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 20.7 |
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate. | ||||||||||||||||||||
1Excludes 0.4 percent of credential-seeking students who did not know their parents’ highest level of education. | ||||||||||||||||||||
NOTE: Occupational education consists of agriculture and natural resources; business and marketing; communication and communications technologies; computer and information sciences; consumer services (personal and culinary services; family, consumer, and human sciences; and parks, recreation, and fitness studies); education; engineering, architecture, and science technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation; protective services; and public, legal, and social services (legal professions and studies; library science; theology and religious vocations; and public administration and social services). Academic education consists of English/letters, foreign languages, interdisciplinary studies, liberal arts, natural sciences and mathematics, philosophy and religious studies, social and behavioral sciences (area/ethnic studies, history, international relations and affairs, political science, psychology, and other social sciences), and visual and performing arts. Data include students enrolled in Title IV eligible postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The estimated number of credential-seeking undergraduates is approximately 18,716,000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | ||||||||||||||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16). |
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