and engineering (S&E) doctoral students and postdocs... GDP). Two fields—biological and biomedical sciences and engineering—have primarily driven the continual increases in academic S&E research space. These two fields accounted for 60% of total research
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Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and White women (3%–5%).Female S&E highest degree holders tend to work proportionately less in S&E occupations (26%) compared to men (45%) (Figure LBR-30... S&E highest degree
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Science and engineering occupations (i.e., S&E occupations) Science and engineering–related occupations (i.e., S&E-related occupations) STEM middle-skill... Table SLBR-1). Similarly, 22.3% of S&E workers (2.1 million) and 37.5% of S&E-related
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The U.S. S&E enterprise has long benefitted from the S&E skills and knowledge of foreign-born STEM... Most foreign-born workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher in S&E and S&E-related occupations are Asian or White, but the distribution of race or ethnicity
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S&E or S&E-related occupations or with their highest degree in S&E or S&E-related fields... S&E occupations or with their highest degrees in S&E fields are employed in the education sector at lower proportions (15%–16%) compared
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STEM occupations—that is, S&E and S&E-related... Higher Education in Science and Engineering”), or the acquisition of certifications or licenses (NASEM... STEM workforce has implications for the U.S. S&E enterprise. This
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S&E or S&E-related occupations... ACS, estimates that there are about 3,937,700 foreign-born S&E or S&E... The rest of this section is based on the NSCG estimates. Overall, about 60% of foreign-born S&E or S&E
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S&E doctorate in the United States (Table SURD-1). In the last 30 years, S&E doctorate holders made an employment shift from the academic to the for-profit... The higher education sector is a large employer of individuals holding research doctorates in S&E
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S&E and S&E-related fields. In 2023, about a third of the associate’s degree holders were in STEM occupations (Table STAL-1). Community colleges awarded 75% of the S&E associate’s degrees... A variety of institutions provide the education necessary to maintain and enhance the U.S. S&E
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