We originally reached out to the Registrar’s office at Carleton to ask for a list of the most popular majors at the school as well as how many people were registered for each major. Unfortunately, the Registrar chose not to supply us with the most recent data, as it was not made available to the public for privacy reasons. As such, we were redirected to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System where we were able to get data on the number of graduates registered under each major from 2001 up until 2021. However, we were originally overwhelmed by the amount of information there before we managed to find our needed information here.
Our data was retrieved from the Integrated PostSecondary Data Education system. We were able to find public data regarding the most popular majors at Carleton over a 20 year period, starting in 2001 and ending in 2021. Our data is visualized through a bar graph video that shows each of the most popular majors from year to year, including the number of each of the majors listed on the graph. This research seems to be more exploratory, as there isn’t much available and accessible information about the most popular majors at Carleton College.
The data was than processed using OpenRefine, Google Sheets and even our own custom-made Python code.
