Explore the data / Sources / Baccalaureate and Beyond What is Baccalaureate and Beyond? NCES follows national groups of bachelor's degree graduates after college. Published results describe later education, employment, debt, and other experiences.
Full name Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study
Published by National Center for Education Statistics
Edition in EduInsights publication 2022241, B&B:16/20 first-look tables A-1 and A-3 through A-7
Current availability Used in the current EduInsights data release. Why it matters
Why we use Baccalaureate and Beyond This study helps us understand how bachelor's graduates manage work, further education, debt, and family life after college.
What graduates did for work The study covers employment, job characteristics, and other work experiences after a bachelor's degree.
More school and student debt The study follows later enrollment, additional degrees, borrowing, and repayment.
How experiences differed among graduates You can compare groups by field, background, college characteristics, and other categories used in the study.
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What to keep in mind
The study checks back with the same graduating class That makes it useful for seeing how one national group changed after college.
Close numbers may be a tie Every estimate has some uncertainty. A small gap between two groups may not mean much.
A national pattern cannot predict one person's path The results describe groups of graduates. Individual choices and circumstances still matter. On its own
Questions this source can answer by itself These questions need no facts from another source.
What were graduates doing four years after college? How did later education differ across graduate groups? What borrowing outcomes did NCES publish? With other sources
Questions this source helps answer We use another source only when it describes the same college, field, career, place, or time.
How does national graduate context compare with field outcomes? Which career measures help explain the work graduates entered? Where it stops
What this source cannot tell you The public results describe national groups, not named colleges. EduInsights does not use private details about individual graduates. Published group differences do not explain their causes. Use this source in a real question. Ask about a college, field, career, place, or change over time.
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