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Degree to Occupation Map

What can you do with a degree in your field? The U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Labor Statistics publish the answer as a crosswalk, and almost nobody shows it. This map does: every occupation officially related to 116 fields of study, with what the work pays, what education its workers typically hold, and where it is heading.

What occupations are officially related to a field of study?

NCES and BLS publish a crosswalk relating 2142 CIP 2020 instructional programs to 688 SOC 2018 occupations across 5917 relationships. This map groups those programs into 116 fields of study people actually search for, lists every occupation related to each, and joins the BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2 row for typical entry education, median wage and projected growth. A crosswalk relationship means a field of study is related to a line of work. It does not mean a degree qualifies someone for the job, that graduates usually enter it, or that any share of them do: the crosswalk publishes no such figure, and neither does this map.

Fields of study
116, each bound to declared CIP 2020 programs and printed on the page
Crosswalk
5917 program-to-occupation relationships, 2142 programs, 688 occupations
Occupation facts
BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2; working conditions from O*NET 30.3
What it does not say
Nothing about qualification, hiring, admission or graduate outcomes. No source in this map publishes those.

Source and method

2020 CIP / 2018 SOC Crosswalk, National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics, and BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2. Verified 2026-09-06. Program-to-occupation relationships are reproduced from the NCES/BLS crosswalk exactly as published; RoleSprint groups CIP programs into the field of study a person would search for and lists the union of their related occupations, showing every member CIP code. Wage, typical entry education and outlook are reproduced from BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2 for the matching SOC code. Working-condition figures are O*NET 30.3 means. No relationship strength, employment share or qualification judgement is published, because no source supplies one. Full methodology.

Find your field of study

116 fields, each bound to the CIP 2020 programs it covers. Nothing here is ranked by suitability: the default order is alphabetical, and the counts and wages are published facts about the related occupations, not a judgement about the degree.

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116 of 116 fields of study listed.

116 of 116 fields of study. Wage figures are the median across the occupations related to each field (2025BLS medians), shown so the lists can be compared — not as an earnings prediction for anyone holding the degree.

What a crosswalk relationship does and does not mean

It does mean

  • NCES and BLS relate this instructional program to this occupation.
  • The occupation is one that people trained in the field are recognised as connected to.
  • Every wage, education and outlook figure beside it is published by BLS for that occupation.

It does not mean

  • That the degree qualifies anyone for the occupation.
  • That graduates usually enter it, or that any particular share of them do.
  • That the occupation requires that degree, or that no licence or experience is needed.
  • Anything about earnings for a person holding the degree, as opposed to the occupation.

The crosswalk publishes no relationship strength and no employment statistics, so neither does this map. Where a page shows a number, it is reproduced from a named source and the source is on the page.

Every field of study

What to do next

A crosswalk relates a field of study to lines of work. Whether one specific opening is worth your time depends on what you can actually show, which is a different question and the one RoleSprint answers.

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