Professional & Instructor Diver
Add ComparisonIn 2024, the locations with the highest concentration of Professional & Instructor Diver degree recipients are Seattle, WA, Houston, TX, and Goodyear, AZ. In 2024, the locations with a relatively high number of Professional & Instructor Diver degree recipients are Goodyear, AZ, Key West, FL, and Juneau, AK. The most common degree awarded to students studying Professional & Instructor Diver is a 1 to 2 year postsecondary certificate.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Professional & Instructor Diver and the types of students that study this field. Divers Institute of Technology awards the most degrees in Professional & Instructor Diver in the US, having also the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Professional & Instructor Diver, followed by Commercial Divers International.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Professional & Instructor Diver programs are Private for-profit, less-than 2-year institutions (3 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private for-profit, less-than 2-year (504 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Professional & Instructor Diver, is Private for-profit, less-than 2-year (504 completions in 2024).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Professional & Instructor Diver programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Divers Institute of Technology has the most Professional & Instructor Diver degree recipients, with 298 degrees awarded in 2024.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Professional & Instructor Diver.
Out of all institutions that offer Professional & Instructor Diver programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Divers Institute of Technology has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Professional & Instructor Diver, with 100%.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Transportation graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Transportation majors is $131,520 and the most common occupations are Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, Other managers, and Air traffic controllers & airfield operations specialists.
The industry that employs the most Transportation majors is Air transportation, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Used merchandise retailers.
The average salary for Transportation majors is $131,520 and the most common occupations are Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, Other managers, and Air traffic controllers & airfield operations specialists.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Transportation majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Transportation majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Transportation majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations for Transportation majors, by number of employees, are Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, Other managers, and Air traffic controllers & airfield operations specialists.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Transportation majors working as Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, Air traffic controllers & airfield operations specialists, and Ship & boat captains & operators.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Transportation majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Physician assistants.
The number of Transportation graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.91%, from 170,712 in 2023 to 177,392 in 2024.
The largest single share of Transportation graduates go on to work as Aircraft pilots & flight engineers (26.6%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Transportation by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Transportation majors, by number of employees, are Air transportation, Services incidental to transportation, and Aircraft & parts manufacturing.
The highest paying industries of Transportation majors, by average wage, are Used merchandise retailers, Not specified utilities, and Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers.
The number of Transportation graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.91%, from 170,712 in 2023 to 177,392 in 2024.
The industry which employs the most Transportation graduates by share is Air transportation, followed by Services incidental to transportation. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Transportation.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Transportation majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Transportation majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Transportation in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Transportation is 43.8.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate. Male employees are more likely to hold Transportation degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Transportation (363 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Transportation. The most common ages of employees with this major are 37 and 41 years old, which represent 3.19% and 3.03% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Professional & Instructor Diver are 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate, Certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years, and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Transportation 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 Professional & Instructor Diver.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Professional & Instructor Diver for each race & ethnicity.
In 2024, White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate recipients in Professional & Instructor Diver.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Switzerland that hold Transportation degrees (10.9 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 Philippines (2,921 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Professional & Instructor Diver field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Professional & Instructor Diver majors need many skills, but most especially Critical Thinking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Professional & Instructor Diver majors need more than the average amount of Installation, Repairing, and Equipment Maintenance.
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 Professional & Instructor Diver 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 Installation is very distinctive for majors, but the Critical Thinking, Active Listening, and Operations Monitoring are the three most important skills for people in the field.
