College Majors & Income
Description: data on rankings of college majors, per median income of graduates. Including gender demographics and percentages of employed vs. unemployed graduates with that major, per 2012 data.
Source (data): GitHub Data Science
Processing: renamed some columns for clarity
Columns:
- Rank (numerical): rank of that major by median earnings
- Major (string): name of major / study
- Total (numerical): total number of US graduates with that major
- Men (numerical): total number of male graduates with that major
- Women (numerical): total number of female graduates with that major
- ShareWomen (numerical): percentage of women with that graduates compared to the total
- Major category (string): overall category of that major, such as Engineering or Business
- Unemployed (numerical): amount of graduates with that degree who are unemployed
- Employed (numerical): amount of graduates with that degree who are employed
- Unemployment rate (numerical): rate of unemployment compared to total number of graduates with that degree
- Median (string): median earnings of full-time, year-round graduated workers with that degree
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