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September 26, 2019
Employment projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate an overall 6.2% increase in geoscience jobs between 2018 and 2028, from 404,640 jobs in 2018 to 429,703 jobs in 2028. For comparison, the projected growth of the U.S. workforce over the same timeframe is expected to be 5.2%....
April 29, 2019
While most geoscience graduates who secured geoscience positions near the time of graduation found jobs domestically, 4% of bachelor's graduates, 2% of master's graduates, and 9% of doctoral graduates accepted geoscience positions outside of the United States. Within the United States, graduating...
April 16, 2019
Between 2013 and 2018 the percentage of graduating students accepting a job within the geosciences fluctuated with changes in the job market and the employment-seeking trends of graduating students. During the 2016-2017 academic year, the percentage of students at all degree levels securing...
December 20, 2018
The American Geosciences Institute has been conducting the AGI’s Geoscience Student Exit Survey for the past five years. The upcoming Status of the Geoscience Workforce 2018 report will have an analysis of the five-year trends from the survey.
One important measure is the change of hiring by...
November 19, 2018
Career preparation for many geoscience students begins when they choose their undergraduate major and develop practical workplace skills through internships, leadership positions, or research experiences. A new series from the American Geosciences Institute called Career Compass provides...
July 06, 2018
Between 2014 and 2017, 2376 geoscience graduates took AGI’s Geoscience Student Exit Survey--1764 bachelor’s graduates, 378 master’s graduates, and 234 doctoral graduates. In September 2017, AGI’s Workforce Program followed up with these Exit Survey participants to ask them about their career path...
April 24, 2018
The Status of Recent Geoscience Graduates 2017 report examines the prior five years of data and explores a number of emerging trends. In particular, the trends of employment of recent graduates in the geosciences and of the recent graduates planning to attend graduate school are showing new...
October 19, 2017
AGI’s Geoscience Student Exit Survey has been conducted with graduating students completing their bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral geoscience degrees for the past 5 years. AGI followed up with approximately 1250 recent graduate respondents. This follow-up survey investigated their career path up...
September 02, 2016
The graph shows the 2015 median annual salaries for geoscience-related occupations in the United States as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The colors represent different occupation categories. The columns in the lighter colors show the annual median salary for the broad...
August 12, 2016
Every two years, the AGI Workforce Program synthesizes and analyzes national data sets that track the changes in the labor workforce to look for changes in the geoscience workforce. To provide an accurate count of the geoscientists working in the United States, AGI's definition of the geosciences...
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