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2022 Abstracts

Obtaining a Degree with Disabilities

Presenter: Braydon Saxton
Authors: Braydon Saxton
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Price
Institution: Southern Utah University

A high school degree is basically the very bare minimum to get almost any job. In today's world a bachelors degree is preferred for most jobs and a Masters degree makes a person more competitive when finding a job. Finding a good paying job is what makes a person economically valuable to society. Knowing how important getting a degree is does having a disability impact getting a degree? This question can be answered by using the data found in IPUMS, and running a multi variant regression model. I hypothesize that having a disability lowers the likelihood of getting degree.