Machine Shop Technology

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Diversity

Demographic information for those who earn a degree in N/A in the United States.

N/A Male employees are more likely to hold undefined degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in undefined (1,283 students).

Sex Imbalance for Common Institutions

Male (92%)

Most Common Sex with a Degree in this Field

This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the N/A institutions that graduate the most students in Machine Shop Technology.

Race & Ethnicity by Degrees Awarded

This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Machine Shop Technology for each race & ethnicity.

In N/A, N/A students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.

Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Machine Shop Technology field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Machine Shop Technology majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Machine Shop Technology majors need more than the average amount of Equipment Selection, Operation and Control, and Troubleshooting.

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 Machine Shop Technology 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 Equipment Selection is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.