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857477458 t1_ir652a9 wrote

Reply to comment by icywatermelons in [OC] Ethnic Differences in Representation for Bachelor/Master Degree Holders in the US (2019) by icywatermelons

Why use 18-44 age range when the overwhelming majority of people will be receiving degrees in their early 20s?

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AftyOfTheUK t1_ir6hu33 wrote

This has both associates and masters in it. I'd agree with your statement if it was just associates.

The average of grad students is in their 30s, though restricting to just masters would bring that down.

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ThrowRA_5318008 t1_ir8qxq4 wrote

‘Associates degree’ is a weird category: most people who earn them are either young (like right out of HS) or older than those who stop at a Bachelor’s: women who return to school during or after raising families, for example. Either way, an Associates degree is nowhere near comparable to a Bachelor’s in terms of the health or economic benefits that accompany that level of educational attainment. Statistically, a person with a terminal Associate’s is no better off than someone who ended their formal education with a HS diploma.

This is why demographers frequently separate educational attainment categories as HS or less vs. Some college or more, or Bachelor’s degree or more vs. Some college or less (this category includes those who’ve completed formal education with a HS diploma or GED but no college at all, even if a person completed five years of trade school and makes $100K/yr).

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Macrophage87 t1_ir6zoxu wrote

Plenty of people who get advanced degrees work between bachelors and masters. For some places, it's even an application requirement (notably with the MBA).

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