What is Fields-to-careers crosswalk?

NCES and BLS publish links between fields of study and jobs. A link means a field may prepare someone for that work.

Full name: NCES and BLS fields-to-careers crosswalk
Published by: National Center for Education Statistics + Bureau of Labor Statistics
Edition in EduInsights: 2020
Current availability: Used in the current EduInsights data release.

Why it matters

Why we use Fields-to-careers crosswalk

This source helps us connect a field of study with careers that may use similar knowledge and skills.

Careers a field can prepare you for
One field can point to many jobs. The connection means the coursework may help prepare someone for that work.
Fields that can lead to a career
A job can point back to several fields because people enter the same career through different routes.
Fields and jobs with no listed connection
No listed link means the crosswalk does not make one. It does not prove that no connection exists.

Good to know

This is a map of preparation, not graduate destinations: The crosswalk does not follow students into jobs. Graduate surveys and outcome files do that work.
The links have no strength rating: A listed career is not more likely because it appears first. The file gives no placement odds.
Older fields and jobs may use different labels: Federal names for fields and jobs change over time. We check those changes before comparing different years.

On its own

These questions need no facts from another source.

With other sources

We use another source only when it describes the same college, field, career, place, or time.

Where it stops

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