Labor Market Outcomes of STEM Master's Education

STEM 硕士教育的劳动力市场成果

• 批准号: 1538769
• 负责人: Suzanne Ortega
• 金额: $ 20.98万
• 依托单位: Council of Graduate Schools
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1538769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Labor; Market; Outcomes; STEM; Master

In 2012, over 160,000 master's degrees were awarded in science and engineering fields by U.S. institutions; ten years earlier, it was less than 100,000. In some fields, the master's degree is the desired (if not required) qualification for initial employment and professional advancement. Accompanying the growth and labor market need is an assessment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that jobs that require a master's degree at entry-level will grow by 18% in the next decade. As the number of master's degree holders in the U.S. economy grows, it is critically important to understand how these individuals have an impact on the U.S. S&E enterprise. The purpose of this project is to examine workforce outcomes, career mobility and the value of a master's education in science and engineering in the U.S. The project seeks to enrich discussions about continued public support for and investment in master's education, and suggest a framework for linking the production of master's degrees with workforce and economic goals using national data collection efforts as the centerpiece.The project will produce original research that employs data from the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) to broadly explore these domains of inquiry: migration, career mobility, and individual monetary and non-monetary benefit-cost relations for master's education. The project will include a stakeholder meeting to synthesize findings of the research with insights from graduate deans, workforce and industry leaders and federal data experts focused on three questions: (1) How can existing data be used as metrics for labor market outcomes assessment of master's education?; (2) How can existing data facilitate alignment between master's education and workforce needs at the national and regional levels?; and 3) How can current national data collection efforts, including the NSCG, be augmented to better capture other labor market outcomes' assessment metrics, such as subsequent career mobility and satisfaction of master's degree holders?

2012年，美国机构在科学和工程领域授予了160,000多个硕士学位；十年前，它不到100,000。在某些领域，硕士学位是最初就业和专业晋升的所需（如果不需要的）资格。伴随增长和劳动力市场需求的是劳工统计局的评估，即需要入门级硕士学位的工作将在未来十年内增长18％。 随着美国经济硕士学位持有人的数量越来越多，了解这些人如何对美国标准普尔企业产生影响至关重要。 该项目的目的是研究美国的劳动力成果，职业流动能力以及硕士在科学和工程方面的教育价值，该项目旨在丰富有关持续公共支持和投资硕士教育的讨论，并建议将硕士学位的生产与劳动力和经济目标的生产联系起来，该框架与国民数据收集的范围相关联。这些调查领域：移民，职业流动性以及个人教育的个人货币和非货币福利成本关系。 该项目将包括一场利益相关者会议，以通过研究生院长，劳动力和行业领导者和联邦数据专家的洞察力综合研究结果，重点介绍了三个问题：（1）如何将现有数据用作劳动力市场的指标，以评估劳动力市场？ （2）现有数据如何促进硕士教育和国家和地区级别的劳动力需求之间的一致性？ 3）如何增加包括NSCG在内的国家数据收集工作，以更好地捕捉其他劳动力市场成果的评估指标，例如随后的职业流动性和硕士学位持有人的满意度？