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GETTING TO 2020: GUIDING STRATEGIES 29

100

90

80
Percent in Senior Management 60
70

50

40
30

20

10

0
Engineering Engineering Engineering Engineering
Only & Science & Business & All Other
Degree Combination

FIGURE 3-2 Likelihood of being in senior management of master’s level engineering
graduates in the private sector, by degree combination, 1995.
NOTE: Master’s degrees may be in any field, any degree combinations imply neither
order of degree fields nor number of degrees earned. In this figure, social sciences are
included in “other.”
SOURCE: NSF (1998).

fields of information technology and the life sciences have led to in-
creasing exploration of engineering as an application of these separate,
yet related, sciences. Engineering education options open to students
are thus expanding, and communicating the nature of those options is
essential to attracting the most talented students.

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