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- After Graduate and Professional School: How Students Fare in the Labor MarketBaum, Sandy; Steele, Patricia (The Urban Institute, 2018-02-16)Many people enroll in graduate and professional degree programs to advance their careers and increase their earnings. On average, advanced degrees are valuable in the labor market, but students pursuing a graduate or professional degree still face considerable uncertainty. This report explores employment and earnings outcomes among advanced degree recipients. Examining these outcomes across degree, occupational, and demographic categories paints a nuanced picture of the payoffs of graduate and professional education.
- Financing Graduate and Professional EducationBaum, Sandy; Steele, Patricia (Urban Institute, 2018-01-04)There is wide variation in the way graduate and professional degree students finance their education. Research doctoral students outside of the for-profit sector get considerable aid from their institutions; many master’s degree students are employed while they are in school; and professional degree student are most reliant on student debt.
- Graduate and Professional School Debt: How Much Students BorrowBaum, Sandy; Steele, Patricia (The Urban Institute, 2018-01-05)Graduate and professional degree students hold a sizable amount of outstanding student debt, and these students on average borrow more than three times as much as undergraduate students. Research doctoral students borrow less than professional degree students and black graduate students accrue higher levels of debt than others pursuing similar degrees.
- Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities: A Primer for PolicymakersWolanin, Thomas R.; Steele, Patricia (The Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2004-06-01)This report focuses on the special barriers to equal educational opportunity in higher education faced by students with disabilities, as they are educated in elementary and secondary schools, transition to higher education, and receive accommodations in higher education. The report also discusses the special topics of architectural barriers, student financial aid, and students with learning disabilities (LD). Each of these topics is treated from the point of view of policymakers starting with the requirements and options available under current federal law and considering how the law and practice can be changed to enhance the opportunities of students with disabilities.
- Loan Counseling for Graduate and Professional StudentsSteele, Patricia; Anderson, Chad (AccessLex Institute, 2016-03-01)With soaring student loan debt and worrisome loan default rates, higher education stakeholders are eager to strengthen existing loan counseling practices and to create more comprehensive approaches to financial education. This report was commissioned to serve that purpose
- Who Goes to Grad School and Who Succeeds?Baum, Sandy; Steele, Patricia (Urban Institute, 2017-01-01)This report argues that students from higher-income backgrounds are more likely than others to enroll in advanced degree programs, more likely to complete their programs, and more likely to earn degrees that promise high value in the labor market.