Assessing the Potential to Expand Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Texas,

Author

Butterfield; Lindsay ; Goldman; Charles A. ; Daugherty; Lindsay ; Miller; Trey

Year

2014

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Language

English

Link

Last Update

24-May-2026

Keywords

Education ; Health Sciences ; History

Description

From 2000 to 2010, the annual number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the United States increased nearly 40 percent, with more than 800,000 associate degrees and 1.6 million bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2009–10 (NCES, 2012a). In Texas, the annual number of undergraduate degrees awarded has increased at an even faster pace, jumping from 116,000 in 2001 to 186,000 in 2011 (THECB, 2012a). Yet there remains a need to increase educational attainment to meet the demand for baccalaureate-degreed workers (Achieve, 2012; Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, 2011; Faberman and Mazumder, 2012). Increasing human capital also can increase individual income and...