Further Education
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Graduate and Professional Education Placement for Bachelor's Degree Recipients
2020-21 through 2022-23
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) requires institutions to disclose the percentage of recent bachelor's degree recipients who pursued further education at the graduate or professional level. These views are derived from matching the 2020-21 through 2022-23 bachelor's degree graduates with internal data sources and with the use of the National Student Clearinghouse Student Tracker Service (NSCSTS). These graduates were tracked through the spring of 2023 to identify advanced degree placement.
The data below reference the bachelor's degree recipients who enrolled in, or received additional credentials from graduate or professional programs beyond their bachelor's degree. The "Areas of Graduate/Professional Study" depict the broad disciplines of these educational pursuits, but this information is only available for students pursuing graduate study at a campus in the IU system. Disciplines with less than 10 instances and records where a credential or enrollment could not be defined are grouped as ‘Unknown.'
Further Education
| Bachelor's Degree Recipients | 12,272 |
|---|---|
| in graduate or professional programs | 2,531 |
| percent pursuing further education | 21% |
| Areas of Graduate/Professional Study | Count | Percent of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Health Professions and Related Programs | 758 | 30% |
| Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services | 259 | 10% |
| Legal Professions and Studies | 211 | 8% |
| Public Administration and Social Service Professions | 173 | 7% |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences and Support Services | 139 | 5% |
| Education | 127 | 5% |
| Visual and Performing Arts | 118 | 5% |
| Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 104 | 4% |
| Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services | 101 | 4% |
| Psychology | 66 | 3% |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 55 | 2% |
| Mathematics and Statistics | 52 | 2% |
| Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies | 40 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 28 | 1% |
| Engineering | 25 | 1% |
| Physical Sciences | 25 | 1% |
| Library Science | 24 | 1% |
| Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | 20 | 1% |
| Natural Resources and Conservation | 16 | 1% |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services | 14 | 1% |
| English Language and Literature/Letters | 13 | 1% |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences | 11 | 0% |
| Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields | 6 | 0% |
| History | 4 | 0% |
| Unknown | 152 | 6% |
| Total | 2,531 | 100% |