What are you going to do with that degree?
Jobs by college major
This is a quick
Sankey
visualization of how college majors relate to professions, based
on data from the American Community survey. On the left are the largest
college majors; to the right are the most common professions.
The majors here have been aggregated into broad fields; to see the original census categories, visit the primary version of this page.
The width of each stream shows how many people with that major are in
that field. The color shows whether that's more or fewer people than
expected based on how big the major is: hover over to see just how many more it is.
You surely see that the lines are too small to understand in most
cases: to actually see what's going on with a particular field or job, double click on a box
and the chart will filter down to just the people who either majored
in the field, or ended up employed in the job. (click on one of the connecting lines to see both at once)
I have not developed this that far because I am not sure how useful it
ultimately is: my basic goal was a quick way to see, for example, what
jobs history majors ended up in. (Largest is lawyers, but also
schoolteachers; what you would expect, but worth knowing.)
You might also like my visualization of changing college degrees over time.
Made by Ben Schmidt
using D3; heavily reusing code from here.