207x snapshot #2 : Education level

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Another quick snapshot of the student body in 207x. Again, these data are not quite complete, as they are missing ~2000 “late” enrollees. Nevertheless it is an interesting portrait. This is a chart showing the highest level of education achieved by the students enrolled in 207x.

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I did not expect to be teaching 800+ Ph.D.s this semester. But neither did I expect to be teaching 800 students not yet out of high school (or junior high in a few cases!).

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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3 Responses to 207x snapshot #2 : Education level

  1. harvard512 says:
    October 10, 2013 at 12:46 pm

    One word on the snapshot of the class…impressive.

  2. Larry C. Wilson says:
    October 10, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    It is nice to see so many of the students here seeing learning as a life-time process that doesn’t stop when pieces of paper are awarded.

    It would be interesting to know what has motivated so many elementary and junior high students to break loose of the step-by-step process of public education to take a college-level course.

  3. Kat Gwinn says:
    October 15, 2013 at 11:28 am

    I’d be interested in the number of MDs (just because I’m one, I suppose). I am guessing they are captured in “other”.

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