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Career Outlook Archive by Subject

Archive by Subject

Graduate degree

Education pays, 2024 May 2025
Education level and projected openings, 2023–33 August 2024
Education pays, 2023 April 2024
Education level and projected openings, 2022–32 January 2024
Education pays, 2022 May 2023
Education pays, 2021 May 2022
Projected openings in occupations that require a college degree September 2021
Education pays, 2020 June 2021
Housing case manager May 2021
Linking college majors to careers January 2021
Human factors engineer December 2020
Education level and projected openings, 2019–29 October 2020
Contact tracer July 2020
Pharmacoeconomist May 2020
Learn more, earn more: Education leads to higher wages, lower unemployment May 2020
Malacologist April 2020
Travel physical therapist March 2020
Rocket scientist March 2020
Careers for nurses: Opportunities and options March 2020
Check it out: Projections for library occupations April 2019
Education pays February 2019
High-wage occupations by typical entry-level education, 2017 January 2019
Employment outlook for graduate-level occupations August 2018
The Game of Life versus real life: How the data compare June 2018
Measuring the value of education April 2018
From premed to physician: Pursuing a medical career December 2017
Pediatric anesthesiologist November 2017
Projections of occupational employment, 2016–26 October 2017
Putting your liberal arts degree to work August 2017
More education: Lower unemployment, higher earnings April 2017
Insectary manager April 2017
Professor of aerospace engineering March 2017
Teaching for a living June 2016
Education matters March 2016
Projections of occupational employment, 2014–24 December 2015
Social worker November 2015
Should I get a master’s degree? September 2015
Sports statistical analyst September 2015
Art therapist April 2015
Seismologist January 2015
Education level and jobs: Opportunities by state September 2014
Education still pays September 2014
Careers in law firms September 2014
Health educator September 2012
Beyond supply and demand: Assessing the Ph.D. job market December 2002
Job openings for new entrants in occupations that usually require postsecondary education or more than 1 year of training, projection 2000-10 June 2002
Highest paying occupations usually requiring at least a bachelor’s degree September 2001
Distance learning in postsecondary education: Learning wherever, whenever June 2001
Fastest growing occupations usually requiring a bachelor’s degree or more education, projected 1998-2008 September 2000