Science, Technology, & Society
Stem Major
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Science, Technology, & Society degree recipients are Melville, NY, Washington, DC, and Harrisonburg, VA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Science, Technology, & Society is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Science, Technology, & Society and the types of students that study this field. Farmingdale State College awards the most degrees in Science, Technology, & Society in the US, having also the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society, followed by Wesleyan University.
Tuition costs for Science, Technology, & Society majors are, on average, $9,718 for in-state public colleges, and $58,818 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Science, Technology, & Society programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (33 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (634 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society, is Public, 4-year or above (634 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Science, Technology, & Society programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Farmingdale State College has the most Science, Technology, & Society degree recipients, with 267 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society.
Out of all institutions that offer Science, Technology, & Society programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Farmingdale State College has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society, with 12.8%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Science, Technology, & Society.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in (515 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Science, Technology, & Society are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Research Doctorate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Science, Technology, & Society.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Science, Technology, & Society for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Science, Technology, & Society.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Latvia that hold degrees (4.18 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (25,807 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Science, Technology, & Society field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Science, Technology, & Society majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Science, Technology, & Society majors need more than the average amount of Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, and Technology Design.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Science, Technology, & Society majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Material Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Active Listening are the three most important skills for people in the field.
