What is the ratio of successful bachelor degree student?

Question

Of all the people who graduate from college and earned a bachelor degree:
-what is the percentage of those who are unhappy of their current situation?
-what is the percentage of those who went on to do work in their field?
Percentage of those going for PHD/ MD?
-Percentage of people die prematurely? die violently? gotten ill?
-travel the world?
-travel the world and come back broke?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I can't answer all of those questions.

However, I can tell you that according to the Census Bureau, about 24% of Americans get a college degree. Just over one percent get a PhD.

I can't tell you about travel -- except to say that people who are educated are more likely to travel overseas than those who do not. One reason is that the average salary for those with college educations is considerably higher than those who did not graduate.

As for health issues, I saw an article just in the last week that shows that people with educations live longer than those without. Interestingly, this holds true even when you account for other factors like income and if they smoke.