Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 22 percent of the Class of 1989 plans to seek graduate degrees in the arts and sciences, according to Office of Career Services (OCS) survey taken last spring...
...Eight percent of the class said they intended to pursue studies in the humanities, six percent in the social sciences and another eight percent in the life sciences, physical sciences and math. Of these students, 10.9 percent said they planned to pursue an academic career...
Graduates, 95 percent of whom responded, also showed interest in spending time abroad, the survey found. Nearly 20 percent of the class said they planned to live in a foreign country this year...
While 41.3 percent of the graduates surveyed cited "high income potential" as an important criteria in their career decision, almost 90 percent selected "intellectual challenge" and 71 percent "the opportunity to be helpful to others" as significant considerations...
Twice as many men as women said they wanted to pursue a career in business, amounting to a total of 16.5 percent of the class, two percent less than last year. And 5.5 percent of female respondents said they would seek a career in the "helping professions," while 0.7 percent of the men said the same, the survey said...