{"id":20221,"date":"2021-08-01T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20221"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:10:18","slug":"exploring-earnings-by-major-in-the-pseo-data-masters-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2021\/08\/01\/exploring-earnings-by-major-in-the-pseo-data-masters-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Masters Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The past six blog posts have been built upon the\u00a0US Census Bureau\u2019s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)<\/a>\u00a0dataset. While these entries in no way exhaust the exploratory paths that could be taken through the PSEO data, this blog post will serve as our series finale of sorts (at least for the time being) for the PSEO data. In this last installment of the series, we take a look at the post-graduation earnings by Major Group across Masters Institutions based on Carnegie Classification<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. As a reminder, there are several caveats in the PSEO data, such as the earnings data being based on Unemployment Insurance (UI) wages that exclude some segments of the workforce<\/a> (e.g., workers among private sector employers that are independent contractors, unincorporated self-employed, some family employees of family-owned business, certain farm workers, etc.).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In order to maintain continuity, we continue using the “Major Group” classification schema introduced in the previous blog posts, which was originally developed by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW,\u00a0<\/span>see page 39<\/a>). These Major Groups\u00a0organize the many academic disciplines in the PSEO data into a more manageable number of 15 instructional clusters.\u00a0As with the previous presentations of the PSEO data, three time-points are included across the data visualizations below: 1, 5, and 10 years after graduation. Having 15 Major Groups with three time-points each provides us with a total of 45 earnings observations represented in the PSEO data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the issues in the Masters Universities data that did not exist in the Doctoral Institutions data was the number of institutions with lower numbers of observations. In the Doctoral Institutions data, 44 of the 58 institutions had at least 42 of the total 45 earnings observations, whereas only 11 out of 54 Masters Institutions had at least 40 of the total 45 earnings observations. The variability in earnings observations across institution types (Doctoral versus Masters) highlights one of the reasons why we have chosen to conduct our analyses by institutional level throughout this PSEO series of blog posts.\u00a0<\/span>This feature will be more important in the “Summarizing University Rankings” later in the blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the number of possible combinations of analyses that we could walk through, the narrative discussion will be fairly limited. However, the visualization was designed to provide the user with multiple filtering options to be able to explore the various features of the PSEO data by Major Groups within Carnegie Classifications. To enhance readability and interpretability, we have restricted the selection of Carnegie Classification and Major Group to one at a time. The default setting places Master’s Universities: Larger Programs with the Agriculture and Natural Resources major as the initial view, with the data sorted by the “Year 1 Avg Earnings” column. Because there are no Texas public universities in the Master’s: Small Programs group, we have removed that category as a filtering option. As in previous posts, the columns can be sorted using the “sort” icon that appears at the bottom of each column next to the column heading. Empty cells represent missing data in the original PSEO data. The fill color of the bars is associated with public university system membership for Texas institutions, as all non-Texas institutions are classified as “Out-of-State” and are filled with a light gray color.<\/p>\n

By way of observation…<\/p>\n