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By February 5, 2013, 11: 53 AM
(MoneyWatch) Studies have suggested that having a job while
attending college
can be a big plus. But while Colleges often recommend that
students work no more
than 10 to 15 hours a week, many are clocking in far more
hours.
A new U.S. Census reportdetermined that 71 percent of the
nation's 19.7 million
college undergraduateswere working in 2011. Of that number, one
in five
undergrads were working at least 35 hours a week year-round.
Among undergrads who weren't full-time workers, more than half
of them clocked
in more than 20 hours a week.
The percentage of college studentswho worked full-time
throughout the year
varied by state. States with the lowest percentage of full-time
college students were
in the Northeast and the West. States with the highest
percentage of full-time
workers were also located in the West, as well as the
Mid-Atlantic.
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Alaska had the highest percentage of full-time workers (37
percent) while
Massachusetts had the lowest percentage (14 percent.)
Graduate students who work
The Census report noted that the percentage of the nation's 4.1
million graduate
students who worked was even higher. Eighty-two percent of grad
students were
holding down some type of job. Nearly half of graduate students
were full-time,
year-round workers.
High school students who work
In comparison to college students,high schoolers were slackers.
Seventy onepercent of the country's 11.1 million high school
students were not working in
2011. Of those teenagers who worked, 1.5 million worked 13 weeks
or less and 70
percent of them worked less than 20 hours a week.
While many undergrads are nontraditional students, who are
probably juggling
family, work and school obligations, there are plenty of
undergrads who have
decided that working full-time and going to school part-time is
the best strategy.
Some of these students are afraid of taking on any debt so they
work to pay for
school a class or two at a time.
Students who attend college part-time, however, are much more
likely to never
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