Sentence examples for a third of college from inspiring English sources

More than a third of college graduates say they regret their choice of major, as my colleague Catherine Rampell has reported.

Nearly a third of college seniors produce some sort of capstone project, and increasingly students are producing major research projects every year.

According to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in January, about a third of college women now have pierced navels.

The decreases reflect the downturn of the domestic stock market, where more than a third of college and university money is invested.

Second, about a third of college graduates earn higher degrees, whose prestige is often more relevant to professional or business success than undergraduate degrees.

By the early 1990s only a third of college women called themselves feminists and this at a time when there were more than 600 women's studies programmes on American campuses.

That's a problem, considering that more than a third of college-educated women today have their first child at 30 or older.

The survey found that average salary levels actually decreased this academic year at a third of colleges and universities, compared with 9 percent that reported lower average salaries in the previous two surveys.

One preliminary study last year on the illicit use of Ritalin, conducted by psychiatrists at the University of Wisconsin, found that a fifth of college students interviewed had taken the drug at least once, and that many had tried any number of other prescription drugs like Dexedrine, a stimulant.

Have we mentioned yet that next week Parker will turn the ripe old age of 21? "It's ridiculous when you think about him coming in here last season, a kid from France who never played a second of college ball, and playing the way he has," Carlesimo said.

A fifth of colleges said the number of students had increased by between 5% and 15%.