In an impressive increase from years past, 40.1 percent of women in the United States had completed four years or more of college in 2024. This figure is up from 3.8 percent of women in 1940. A significant increase can also be seen in males, with 37.1 percent of the U.S. male population having completed four years or more of college in 2024, up from 5.5 percent in 1940. 4- and 2-year colleges In the United States, college students are able to choose between attending a 2-year postsecondary program and a 4-year postsecondary program. Generally, attending a 2-year program results in an Associate’s Degree, and 4-year programs result in a Bachelor’s Degree. Many 2-year programs are designed so that attendees can transfer to a college or university offering a 4-year program upon completing their Associate’s. Completion of a 4-year program is the generally accepted standard for entry-level positions when looking for a job. Earnings after college Factors such as gender, degree achieved, and the level of postsecondary education can have an impact on employment and earnings later in life. Some Bachelor’s degrees continue to attract more male students than female, particularly in STEM fields, while liberal arts degrees such as education, languages and literatures, and communication tend to see higher female attendance. All of these factors have an impact on earnings after college, and despite nearly the same rate of attendance within the American population between males and females, men with a Bachelor’s Degree continue to have higher weekly earnings on average than their female counterparts.

In 2024, female university graduates expected to earn an average starting salary of ****** euros per year, whereas male graduates expected ****** euros per year. Globally, Germany was among the ten leading countries with smaller pay inequalities.

Estimated gross annual earnings quartiles for postsecondary graduates working full time at the time of the interview are presented by the province of study, the level of study and gender. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

College Majors and their Graduates

Job Opportunities, Salaries and Gender Disparities

By FiveThirtyEight [source]

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Research Ideas

• Create an interactive comparison tool for researching college majors and their earning potential, so that prospective students can make informed decisions about what to study.
• Analyze the proportions of male and female graduates across different majors to uncover gender disparities in higher education.
• Explore the correlations between major categories, average salaries earned by graduates from specific major categories, unemployment rates for those with specific majors and more – to identify trends in job opportunities for certain specialties of study

Acknowledgements

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License

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Columns

File: majors-list.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------|:----------------------------------------------------| | FOD1P | First-level division of the field of study (String) | | Major | The specific major of the field of study (String) | | Major_Category | The broader category of the field of study (String) |

File: recent-grads.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Major | The specific major of the field of study (String) | | Rank | The rank of the major in terms of popularity (Integer) | | Major_code | The code associated with the major (Integer) | | Major_category | The category of the major (String) | | Total | The total number of students in the major (Integer) | | Sample_size | The sample size of the major (Integer) | | Men | The number of male students in the major (Integer) | | Women | The number of female students in the major (Integer) | | ShareWomen | The percentage of female students in the major (Float) | | Employed | The number of employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Full_time | The number of full-time employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Part_time | The number of part-time employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Full_time_year_round | The number of full-time year-round employed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Unemployed | The number of unemployed graduates from the major (Integer) | | Unemployment_rate | The unemployment rate of graduates from the major (Float) | | Median | The median salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | P25th | The 25th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | P75th | The 75th percentile salary of graduates from the major (Integer) | | College_jobs | The number of college jobs held by graduates from the major...

One year after obtaining their university title, graduates in Italy earned an average net salary of ***** euros per month in 2024. People graduating in 2021 were paid around *** euros more, while those who obtained their tertiary education diploma in 2019 gained monthly ***** euros net. Hence, average salaries proportionally raised as work experience augmented. On the contrary, the salary gap between women and men grew as careers progressed. One year after graduation, women earned *** euros less than male colleagues. However, for those who graduated in 2021, this difference increased to *** euros, and five years after graduation it reached *** euros.

The statistic shows the median gross annual earnings of college graduates working full-time in Canada from graduation year 2000 to 2010, by gender. Women, who graduated in 2009/2010 with a college degree in Canada, had median earnings of 38,900 Canadian dollars, three years after graduation.

Characteristics and median employment income of postsecondary graduates five years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer sciences) and BHASE (business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education) groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada (cross-sectional analysis).

In 2023, the mean income of women with a doctorate degree in the United States stood at 139,100 U.S. dollars. For men with the same degree, mean earnings stood at 175,500 U.S. dollars. On average in 2023, American men earned 91,590 U.S. dollars, while American women earned 65,987 U.S. dollars.

The gender earnings gap is an expanding statistic over the lifecycle. We use the LEHD Census 2000 to understand the roles of industry, occupation, and establishment 14 years after leaving school. The gap for college graduates 26 to 39 years old expands by 34 log points, most occurring in the first 7 years. About 44 percent is due to disproportionate shifts by men into higher-earning positions, industries, and firms and about 56 percent to differential advances by gender within firms. Widening is greater for married individuals and for those in certain sectors. Non-college graduates experience less widening but with similar patterns.

In 2022, about 37.7 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from college or another higher education institution, a slight decline from 37.9 the previous year. However, this is a significant increase from 1960, when only 7.7 percent of the U.S. population had graduated from college. Demographics Educational attainment varies by gender, location, race, and age throughout the United States. Asian-American and Pacific Islanders had the highest level of education, on average, while Massachusetts and the District of Colombia are areas home to the highest rates of residents with a bachelor’s degree or higher. However, education levels are correlated with wealth. While public education is free up until the 12th grade, the cost of university is out of reach for many Americans, making social mobility increasingly difficult. Earnings White Americans with a professional degree earned the most money on average, compared to other educational levels and races. However, regardless of educational attainment, males typically earned far more on average compared to females. Despite the decreasing wage gap over the years in the country, it remains an issue to this day. Not only is there a large wage gap between males and females, but there is also a large income gap linked to race as well.

This chart shows the amount of the declared median gross annual salary of French long-term tertiary education graduates in from 2020 to 2023, by gender, in euros. It can thus be seen that women with a long-term higher education qualification who graduated in 2023 had a median gross annual salary of ****** euros, compared with ****** for their male counterparts.

The number of postsecondary graduates, by Classification of Instructional Programs, Primary groupings (CIP_PG), International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), age group and gender.

In the academic year of 2022, it is expected that 551,460 female and 331,530 male students will earn a Master’s degree in the United States. These figures are a significant increase from the academic year of 1950, when 16,980 female students and 41,220 male students earned a Master’s degree.

What is a Master’s degree?

A Master’s degree is an academic degree granted by universities after finishing a Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degrees focus in on a specific field and are more specialized than a Bachelor’s. A typical Master’s program is about two years long, with the final semester focusing on the thesis. Master’s degree programs are usually harder to get into than Bachelor’s degree programs, due to the rigor of the program. Because these programs are so competitive, those with a Master’s degree are typically paid more than those with a Bachelor’s degree.

Master’s degrees in the United States

The number of master’s degrees granted in the United States has steadily increased since the 1970s and is expected to continue to increase. In 2021, the Master’s degree program with the worst job prospects in the United States by mid-career median pay was counseling, while the program with the best job prospects was a physician's assistant.

Context

Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. https://images.pexels.com/photos/414579/pexels-photo-414579.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=1&w=500" alt="eng"> Engineering is a broad discipline that is often broken down into several sub-disciplines. Although an engineer will usually be trained in a specific discipline, he or she may become multi-disciplined through experience. Engineering is often characterized as having four main branches: chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. [Reference: Wikipedia]

Engineering Graduates in India India has a total 6,214 Engineering and Technology Institutions in which around 2.9 million students are enrolled. Every year on an average 1.5 million students get their degree in engineering, but due to lack of skill required to perform technical jobs less than 20 percent get employment in their core domain. [source of information: BWEDUCATION]

Objective

A relevant question is what determines the salary and the jobs these engineers are offered right after graduation. Various factors such as college grades, candidate skills, the proximity of the college to industrial hubs, the specialization one have, market conditions for specific industries determine this. On the basis of these various factors, your objective is to determine the salary of an engineering graduate in India.

Data Description

• ID: A unique ID to identify a candidate
• Salary: Annual CTC offered to the candidate (in INR)
• Gender: Candidate's gender
• DOB: Date of birth of the candidate
• 10percentage: Overall marks obtained in grade 10 examinations
• 10board: The school board whose curriculum the candidate followed in grade 10
• 12graduation: Year of graduation - senior year high school
• 12percentage: Overall marks obtained in grade 12 examinations
• 12board: The school board whose curriculum the candidate followed
• CollegeID: Unique ID identifying the university/college which the candidate attended for her/his undergraduate
• CollegeTier: Each college has been annotated as 1 or 2. The annotations have been computed from the average AMCAT scores obtained by the students in the college/university. Colleges with an average score above a threshold are tagged as 1 and others as 2.
• Degree: Degree obtained/pursued by the candidate
• Specialization: Specialization pursued by the candidate
• CollegeGPA: Aggregate GPA at graduation
• CollegeCityID: A unique ID to identify the city in which the college is located in.
• CollegeCityTier: The tier of the city in which the college is located in. This is annotated based on the population of the cities.
• CollegeState: Name of the state in which the college is located
• GraduationYear: Year of graduation (Bachelor's degree)
• English: Scores in AMCAT English section
• Logical: Score in AMCAT Logical ability section
• Quant: Score in AMCAT's Quantitative ability section
• Domain: Scores in AMCAT's domain module
• ComputerProgramming: Score in AMCAT's Computer programming section
• ElectronicsAndSemicon: Score in AMCAT's Electronics & Semiconductor Engineering section
• ComputerScience: Score in AMCAT's Computer Science section
• MechanicalEngg: Score in AMCAT's Mechanical Engineering section
• ElectricalEngg: Score in AMCAT's Electrical Engineering section
• TelecomEngg: Score in AMCAT's Telecommunication Engineering section
• CivilEngg: Score in AMCAT's Civil Engineering section
• conscientiousness: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
• agreeableness: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
• extraversion: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
• nueroticism: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
• openess_to_experience: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test

**Note: **To give you more context AMCAT is a job portal.

Acknowledgemet

I would like to thank ‘Aspiring Minds Research’ for making this dataset available publicly.

Inspiration

The data can be used not only to make an accurate salary predictor but also to understand what influences salary and job titles in the labour market. It’s up to you to explore things.

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The proportion of male and female postsecondary graduates, by Classification of Instructional Programs, Primary groupings (CIP_PG), International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and age group.

In 2023, the mean income of Black Bachelor's degree holders was ****** U.S. dollars, compared to ****** U.S. dollars for White Americans with a Bachelor's degree.

Average earnings, by age group and highest level of education, from the 2016 Census of Population.

In 2024, men in Japan with graduate school degrees earned ***** thousand Japanese yen a month on average. The monthly salary of women was overall lower than that of men among all academic backgrounds.

Number of Canadian postsecondary graduates by visible minority group, educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings), gender, and age group.