Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees: Systemic Change to Support Students’ Diverse Pathways

This slide deck, published by National Academies (U.S.), discusses a report on barriers that students face when completing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees. Also discussed are opportunities in development that are intended to aid degree completion in these fields. The slides compare how STEM fields and STEM students have changed between 1987 and 2012, presents some conclusions as to why students either do not finish their degrees or take extra years doing so, and provides some research-based recommendations to remedy or improve the issue.

The recorded presentation is available to view separately.