Data

For our project, all of the data we used was accessed through the Carleton Career Center and Office of Institutional Research and Assessment.

The IRA’s website gave us access to a data set titled “Top 50 Institutions where Carleton Graduates have Enrolled for Graduate Study (Class of 1990 to present).” The data set was released in 2015 and is publicly accessible via this link, and we have displayed it below for reference as well.

This is a data set on the Top 50 Graduate Schools attended by Carleton alumni from 1990 to 2015, we used it in our project to map where Carls have spread across the country for graduate degrees
Data set on the top 50 most popular graduate schools for Carleton alumni (by degree type)

Additionally, through the Career Center, we were able to download publicly accessible Alumni Employment and Education Data across all majors. We chose to incorporate the data from only eight [8] of these data sets so our maps didn’t get too crowded. The majors we chose to use were Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, English, History, Mathematics/Statistics, and Political Science/International Relations. The data sets for each can be viewed below and each image is linked to the original PDF.

Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for biology majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Biology
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for chemistry majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Chemistry
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for computer science majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Computer Science
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for economics majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Economics
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for english majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
English
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for history majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
History
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for mathematics and math/statistics majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Mathematics, Mathematics/Statistics
Data set on most popular graduate institutions, programs, and degrees for political science and international relations majors from Carleton between 1990 and 2015.
Political Science/International Relations

In addition to the several interactive ArcGIS visualizations we created, we also generated some bar charts and other presentation visualizations to see how all the numbers actually looked next to each other. We used Rawgraphs.io to make the charts and have included some of them here for your reference while examining the data sets.

A stacked bar chart showing the spread of degrees earned at each of the top 50 graduate schools
Stacked Bar Chart showing spread of degrees at each of the top 50 institutions
A pie chart showing the spread of degrees in general, not by institution
Pie Chart showing spread of degrees, not by institution
A bar graph showing how many Masters degrees are earned at each of the top 50 institutions by Carleton alumni.
Bar graph of Masters degrees earned by Carleton alumni at each of the top 50 institutions
A bar graph showing total enrollment of past Carleton biology majors at each of the top 50 institutions.
A bar graph showing the total enrollment of past biology majors at Carleton at each of the top 50 institutions