Postsecondary Attainment, Attendance, Curriculum, and Performance: Selected Results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) …

C Adelman, B Daniel, I Berkovits - 2003 - ERIC
C Adelman, B Daniel, I Berkovits
2003ERIC
This report presents selected results from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988
(NELS: 88/2000). Most of the participants in this study were eighth graders in 1988,
graduates from high school in 1992, and at the time of the postsecondary transcript data
collection in the year 2000 were around the age of 26 or 27. Of all likely postsecondary
participants, 45% earned a bachelor's degree of higher by age 26 or 27. Of those who
earned more than 10 college credits, 51% earned a bachelor's degree or higher by age 26 …
This report presents selected results from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000). Most of the participants in this study were eighth graders in 1988, graduates from high school in 1992, and at the time of the postsecondary transcript data collection in the year 2000 were around the age of 26 or 27. Of all likely postsecondary participants, 45% earned a bachelor's degree of higher by age 26 or 27. Of those who earned more than 10 college credits, 51% earned a bachelor's degree or higher by age 26 or 27. Sixty-seven percent of those who earned more than 10 college credits and attended a four-year college at any time received a bachelor's degree or higher by age 26 or 37. Of all undergraduates who earned more than 10 credits, 20% attended institutions in more than one state as undergraduates. More than half of Hispanic/Latino students began their postsecondary careers in community colleges, in contrast to 37% of White students and 41% of Black students. Most
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