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Between 1980 and 2007, the college enrollment rate for Blacks increased from 44% to 56% and the college enrollment rates for Hispanics increased from 50% to 62%. In comparison, the same rate increased from 49.8% to 77.7% for Whites. There are no data for Asians or American Indians/Alaska Natives regarding enrollment rates from the 1980s to 2007.
According to the Pew Research Center, Hispanic students college enrollment has increased by 240 percent since 1996, more than their African American or White counterparts. [104] However, this growth is similarly at the open access colleges and does not translate into enrollment at four-year colleges.
The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
For example, at Pomona College, a small private school about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, an average of 3.7% of incoming freshmen did not indicate their race in 2022 and 2023, according to ...
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, Amherst College, MIT and Washington University in St. Louis are among those that have seen their Black population decline for the class of 2028.
Here is a list of four-year colleges and universities in Florida ranked by the percentage of the student body that was female in 2021. For this list, we included only schools with at least 5,000 ...
English: Chart showing college attendance in the United States, analyzed by race and schools' overall admission rates Data source: Arum, Richard; Stevens, Mitchell L. (July 3, 2023). "For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough". The New York Times. Source states: "Note: Data as of 2021. Source: U.S. Department of Education"
In 1998, the year a voter-approved measure barring the use of race-conscious admissions policies for public colleges and universities in California took effect, the percentage of Black, Hispanic ...