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One year of additional schooling lowers the probability of a student later being unemployed by 3.6 percentage points, of being on welfare by 5.5 percentage points, and of living below the poverty line by 8.1 percentage points.
Protests have roiled college campuses across the country lately, many led by African American students. But Princeton has a unique history and connection to the very American legacy of racial segregation.
The school is a culturally diverse mosaic of the African Diaspora: Students hail from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and West Africa. It is 79% of African descent, 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 1% white.
Although there is substantial variation in earnings within majors, those that emphasize quantitative skills—such as engineering, computer science, economics, and finance—tend on average to have graduates with the highest lifetime earnings, while majors that train students to work with children or provide counseling services—such as early childhood education, elementary education, and social work—tend to have graduates with lower lifetime earnings.
Shell Oil partners with high schools across the nation to raise awareness about career opportunities in the STEM fields and get kids excited about science.
