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TABLE ID-8
PARENTS’ EDUCATION BY STUDENT’S SEX
(%’s)
Rowan Students National Sample
Father’s Education Mother’s Education Education of either
parent
(NPSAS:2000)*
Gender of
Student
Males Females Total Males Females Total Total Males Females
High school
education or
less
26.2 27.2 26.5 33.1 23.1 31.1 37.1 34.6 39.0
Some postsecondary
education
21.5 16.7 20.5 21.7 18.5 21.1 22.8 21.2 24.1
Undergraduate
college degree
33.6 34.8 33.8 31.9 36.9 32.9 40.1 44.2 37.0
Graduate or
professional
degree
17.7 19.7 18.1 13.3 21.4 15.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
(n) (265) (66) (331) (263) (65) (328)
*Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1999-
2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2000)
(http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/table_library/tables/npsas39.asp)
Parents’ Occupations
Parents’ occupations add to the socio-economic resources supporting a student, as
well as give an indication of occupational role models the parents provide. In terms of
occupation, the Rowan students’ parents are disproportionately managerial and
professional compared to the wider U.S. population, and underrepresented in terms of
service and blue-collar occupations (Table ID-9) – as are college students’ parents
nation-wide (CPS, 2000). Fathers of Rowan engineering students are more likely to be in
managerial/administrative positions and blue-collar jobs than are mothers; their mothers
are disproportionately educators and clerical workers.
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