I had some great source for this info in our college search for DD,
but have no idea where I got it… and would like it for building a comparison table for (very different) DS…
so for example i knew that Pomona was 31.5% STEM, 38.7% Soc Sci; 18 % arts/hum,
and could contrast with Wesleyan 17.1% STEM, 52.5% Soc Sci; 26.9 % arts/Hum.
(in an old table that i’d like to refresh and add schools to)
Any ideas where I could find that?
Common Data Sets, at the very end in section J entitled Disciplinary Areas of Degrees Conferred, shows a breakdown but you’d have to do work yourself on grouping it into STEM, Social Science, and Humanities groupings.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/data-sets/cds2015-16.pdf
The US Government has a site called[College Navigator](http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/) that allows you to search by college to find out information about enrollment, admissions, and most importantly, how many people graduate with individual majors. For instance, my school, the University of Oklahoma graduated [15 geology majors from 2014-2015](College Navigator - University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus).
I think the College Navigator pulls data from the Common Data Set. You can find the CDS for most schools by Googling the school name & Common Data Set.
Thanks, all! I appreciate the input.
I know that a couple years ago I had some source that just provided a fast easy summary for any given school. Well, guess I’ll have to crunch the numbers.
I do love the mountains of data at the NCES site, very interesting data to poke around in.
Cheers!
College Navigator pulls from the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System), which is the part of the NCES.ED.GOV site.
I used to work at a university and had to query/provide our institution’s data for the Common Data Set, IPEDS, etc.
That college navigator site is a godsend. We found it hugely helpful in trying to identify LACs that were particularly strong in a couple of disciplines my son is interested in that don’t tend to attract lots of majors at schools of that type: music and computer science. Number of majors is obviously only one way to measure the strength of a department, but you can be pretty confident a school with 20 CS majors has a much more active department than one with 5.
I’ve been posting data I’ve been crunching on the sciences (hard and soft) from NSF on # graduate students coming from different institutions. It’s not exactly what you want but might give you some ideas of institutions to explore and definitely will give an idea of strength and size of departments. Scroll through the thread as I’ve posted two different data crunches: one on awardees of NSF Grad Fellowships (that has the soft sciences) and another on PhDs awarded (that only has hard sciences). My posts have the links to the data sources, but I downloaded and did a lot of crunching on the raw data.
Thanks! That’s very helpful and interesting to peruse, and certainly helps capture some of the general STEM strength DS is looking for. Cheers!
It’s not comprehensive of all majors, but USNWR lists the five most popular majors, with percentages, for every school that provides the data.
College results org will show % of STEM, humanities, etc. and you can download an Excel file with a lot of useful information.
That’s it! I kept track of a lot of my favorite sites (some sadly folded or changed for the worse), but I lost track of this link. Thanks!