Author
Butterfield; Lindsay ; Goldman; Charles A. ; Daugherty; Lindsay ; Miller; Trey
Year
2014
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Language
English
Last Update
04-Nov-2024
Keywords
Education ; Health Sciences ; History
From 2000 to 2010, the annual number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the United States increased nearly 40 percent, with more than 800,000 associate degrees and 1.6 million bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2009–10 (NCES, 2012a). In Texas, the annual number of undergraduate degrees awarded has increased at an even faster pace, jumping from 116,000 in 2001 to 186,000 in 2011 (THECB, 2012a). Yet there remains a need to increase educational attainment to meet the demand for baccalaureate-degreed workers (Achieve, 2012; Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, 2011; Faberman and Mazumder, 2012). Increasing human capital also can increase individual income and...
