Sentence examples for diploma about from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the 21st century, more than one-third of the population had a high school diploma, about one-third had a junior high school diploma, and more than one-tenth had obtained a college degree.

Some cautioned that the results could be overstated because Americans without a high school diploma — about 12 percent of the population, down from about 22 percent in 1990, according to the Census Bureau — were a shrinking group that was now more likely to be disadvantaged in ways besides education, compared with past generations.

On paper, it is difficult to understand how this city of 80,000 is struggling: only about 2 percent of its families live below the poverty line; 92 percent of its population has a high school diploma; about half of its adults have at least a bachelor's degree; it is one of the safest cities in the country; and the median value of a house is more than $200,000.

In 1961, when Harvard switched to English diplomas, about 4,000 students protested in the "diploma riots," and criticized the new documents as "Y.M.C.A. certificates".

In a protest over the lack of jobs, the root cause of the uprising, graduating students have glued their diplomas — about a dozen of them — to the entrance of the town's municipal offices.

The unemployment rate for workers over the age of 25 who do not have a high-school diploma is about 13 percent, compared with about 4 percent for workers in the same age group with a college degree or higher.

An exciting new engineering diploma is about to hit the classroom, says the director of education programmes at The Royal Academy of Engineering.

In 1970, according to a recent study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, people with a bachelor's degree earned about sixty thousand dollars a year, on average, and people with a high-school diploma earned about forty-five thousandollarsrs.

In 1993, I wrote my diploma thesis about this project.

According to a report issued last week by America's Promise Alliance, only 70% of all U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma, and about 1.2 million drop out annually.

And that's why I paused when I stumbled upon a box in the basement filled with my elementary school class pictures, middle school dairies, high school yearbook, college diploma and about three dozen love letters and cards that their dad had sent to me while we were in a long-distance relationship.