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ERIC Number: ED608163
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
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Washington Bachelor's of Applied Science Graduate Employment and Earnings Outcomes. Data Note 7. New Baccalaureate Series
Meza, Elizabeth Apple; Bragg, Debra D.
Community College Research Initiatives
This study examines the employment and earnings of Washington Bachelor's of Applied Science (BAS) graduates in business, computer and information sciences, healthcare, and visual and performing arts. Complimenting research by Kaikkonen (2020), we report results of two studies that find high employment match rates and increasing annualized earnings over time for BAS graduates of all four programs. Healthcare graduates receive the highest and most consistently lucrative wages. However, disaggregation of earnings for BAS graduates by gender and race reveals mixed results. Female BAS graduates lag behind male BAS graduates on annualized earnings, often by large margins. The one exception is computer and information sciences where female BAS graduates close the earnings gap and surpass their male counterparts one year after graduation. With respect to race, we find white students tend to garner higher earnings than racially minoritized groups, but there are exceptions. Latinx and Native American/Alaska Native business graduates have comparable annualized earnings to White and Asian groups, and African American BAS healthcare graduates start out with the lowest annualized earnings of any group but exceed Whites at three years post-graduation ($74,600 for African Americans compared to $72,000 for Whites) and significantly narrow the wage gap with Asians who earn $77,600. As more BAS students graduate and enter the workforce it is important to continue to track employment and earnings to gain an even fuller and more nuanced understanding of these critical outcomes by student demographics. [For Data Note 6, see ED608175.]
Community College Research Initiatives. University of Washington, 4333 Brooklyn Avenue NE, UW Tower, T-12, Box 359447, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-616-0722; e-mail: ccri@uw.edu; Web site: https://www.washington.edu/ccri/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Joyce Foundation; Lumina Foundation
Authoring Institution: University of Washington, Community College Research Initiatives (CCRI); Center on Education and Skills at New America (CESNA)
Identifiers - Location: Washington
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A