Is it worth it? Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes for the disadvantaged

Table 4 Distribution of field of study by degree type and completion

	Voc/Cert		AA		BA
Fields of study	Comp.	Attempt	Comp.	Attempt	Comp.	Attempt
Manufacturing	0.007	0.009	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000
Construction	0.085	0.073	0.001	0.005	0.000	0.000
Health tech	0.258	0.130	0.024	0.023	0.000	0.001
Other health	0.100	0.066	0.055	0.072	0.078	0.068
Transportation	0.004	0.004	0.002	0.001	0.000	0.000
Business/Management	0.055	0.044	0.008	0.025	0.216	0.192
Education	0.013	0.025	0.003	0.007	0.085	0.080
Engineering	0.045	0.040	0.018	0.028	0.079	0.084
Communications	0.005	0.003	0.003	0.004	0.060	0.050
Legal	0.001	0.003	0.392	0.122	0.006	0.005
Security	0.332	0.198	0.007	0.016	0.042	0.038
Bio, Math/Stats, Physical science	0.005	0.004	0.002	0.003	0.069	0.078
Social science	0.000	0.001	0.001	0.003	0.203	0.180
Humanities	0.009	0.026	0.480	0.554	0.122	0.124
Other	0.078	0.053	0.003	0.006	0.034	0.030
Missing	0.002	0.322	0.001	0.131	0.006	0.072
N	12,060	28,775	43,236	144,231	45,564	77,028

Notes: “Comp.” denotes completers and “Attempt” denotes all attempters of that degree, regardless of completion status. Each number represents the share of students attempting a given degree who completed or attempted (depending on column header) a given field. For example, of students who completed an AA degree, 48 percent of them were awarded degrees in Humanities; and of students who attempted an AA degree, 55.4 percent attempted a Humanities degree. Students who did not complete a degree are counted as attempting their final declared major prior to leaving postsecondary studies.