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Are Students More T-Shaped?

This project explores the evolution of course selection among Union College students from 2001 to 2012, focusing on whether students are adopting a more T-shaped educational profile, characterized by breadth across multiple disciplines. By analyzing data from 28,194 course roster pages and 4,113 students, the study assesses changes in the number of unique departments in students' transcripts. Various factors influencing educational breadth are examined, such as departmental offerings, major requirements, and total courses taken, revealing a notable increase in interdisciplinary studies.

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Are Students More T-Shaped?

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  1. Are Students More T-Shaped? Julia Duros Senior Project, 2013 Computer Science and Economics Advisors: Chris Fernandes, Tomas Dvorak

  2. Breadth Depth Depth T vs. I-Shaped Individuals

  3. Have students taken a broader range of courses now than in the past? Question

  4. Course Schedules Page (public) Course Roster Page (private) Course Pages

  5. Union College course roster data scraped • Wrote Python script: 1. Saved all pages as HTML 2. Puteach page’s data into CSV file Course roster  Program  Data file Steps to Gather Data

  6. Import to Stata • Organize, manipulate, and analyze data Manipulating the Data

  7. For each student: • Identifier • Major • Enrollmentinformation • Department • Term and Year Description of Data

  8. 28,194 course roster pages • 4,113 students • 168,370 course enrollments • Courses 2001-2012 • Students in Class Years 2004-2012 Size of Data

  9. Breadth of education is one dimension of interdisciplinarity • Measured by number of unique departments represented on transcript Breadth

  10. Results

  11. Possible factors: • Number of departments/programs • Major requirements • Total courses taken Why the increase?

  12. Results

  13. Results

  14. Results

  15. Number of Required Departments for Specified Major Results

  16. Results Note: only using departments in existence 2001-2012

  17. Students have taken broader range of courses  more T-shaped • More departments to choose from • More courses in total Conclusion

  18. Why the increase in number of total courses? • Courses taken for GenEd • Grades Future Work

  19. Questions?

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