A new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights 10 pathway changes involving education, training, and work experience that can help young adults access good jobs by age 30.
Topics: Earning potential
Which ‘college-to-jobs’ programs position students for economic mobility?
A new report explores career-focused opportunities available to college students—programming like job shadowing, internships, cohort structures, and career coaching—and highlights the most promising approaches for colleges looking to improve students’ academic and employment outcomes.
Year-round Pell Grants linked to improved retention, earnings
A new study finds that students eligible for year-round Pell Grants had higher degree attainment rates and earnings than students who could not access the grants for summer sessions.
A college education is still the most reliable pathway to the middle class
Despite skepticism about higher education and the growing popularity of career and professional training programs, a college degree remains the most dependable route to sustainable economic opportunity, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Study: GPA thresholds for popular majors limiting upward mobility for low-income students and students of color
A study from researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Yale University highlights the unintended consequences of using GPA requirements to restrict access to in-demand majors.
Georgetown report: College, work experience crucial to securing a good job
A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows how young adults’ journey to attain a good job has grown longer, highlighting the importance of a college education and the consequences of racial and gender disparities.
Want to position students for equitable post-college wages? Take a cue from the humanities.
Across many STEM fields, Black college graduates earn significantly less than their white counterparts. That’s not the case for humanities grads—suggesting a few potential strategies for closing the racial earnings gap.
Report offers closer look at representation within fields of study
Simply increasing diversity on campus is not enough to prevent persistent under- or over-representation of racial and ethnic groups in certain majors, according to a new report.
How does students’ choice of major, school affect first-year earnings? Georgetown report offers first-time look.
A new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce sheds light on wide variation in the first-year earnings and loan debt of graduates across 37,000 college majors at 4,400 postsecondary institutions.
Summer internship cancellations could have lasting effects
College students are scrambling to rethink their summer plans as employers cancel internships—opportunities that are especially crucial for students with looming loan debt and limited professional networks.
Georgetown study on ‘good jobs’ calls for expanding educational opportunity
Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce finds that white Americans hold a disproportionate amount of “good jobs” compared to Black and Latinx Americans at the same levels of educational attainment.
New College Scorecard data shows high borrowing for grad programs
New information posted to the College Scorecard reveals the amount of debt students take on for graduate programs—amounts notable not only for their size but also their irrationality.