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| Community college attendance among recent recipients of S&E bachelor’s and master’s degrees, by degree level and degree year: 1999–2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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| Degree level | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |||||
| All recent graduates | 900,400 | 41 | 918,400 | 44 | 958,400 | 45 | 1,634,200 | 45 | 1,138,400 | 46 | 1,136,700 | 46 | |||||
| Bachelor’s | 743,400 | 43 | 758,300 | 46 | 794,400 | 47 | 1,343,000 | 47 | 934,300 | 49 | 916,500 | 49 | |||||
| Master’s | 157,000 | 35 | 160,100 | 34 | 164,000 | 34 | 291,200 | 34 | 204,100 | 35 | 220,300 | 36 | |||||
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NOTES: Recent graduates are those who earned degrees in the 2 academic years preceding the survey year or, for the 2006 survey year, in the 3 preceding academic years. For 2006, recent graduates are those who earned degrees between 1 July 2002 and 30 June 2005. Data are rounded to the nearest 100. Detail may not add to total because of rounding. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, special tabulations (2013) of the National Survey of Recent College Graduates, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2010. Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 |
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