As you can see, the portion of high school graduates who go immediately into college has been rising over the years, largely because of the influx of women into the nation’s institutions of higher learning. Last year, the college enrollment rate among women who were recent high school graduates was 74 percent, and for men it was 62.8 percent.Source: NY Times - 4/9/11
Found at Why Boys Fail
Mark Perry at Carpe Diem provided the graphic for the expected results.
You can read the entire article after the jump.
April 9, 2011, 12:00 pmCollege Enrollment Fell Slightly in 2010The share of recent high school graduates enrolled in college by the October after their graduation fell slightly in 2010, according to a new report from the Labor Department.Of the high school class of 2010, 68.1 percent of graduates were enrolled in college by October. The comparable share for the previous year’s high school class was 70.1 percent.Both classes, however, had higher college enrollment rates than those from previous decades:Source: Bureau of Labor StatisticsAs you can see, the portion of high school graduates who go immediately into college has been rising over the years, largely because of the influx of women into the nation’s institutions of higher learning. Last year, the college enrollment rate among women who were recent high school graduates was 74 percent, and for men it was 62.8 percent.More temporary factors — like the business cycle or a military draft — also appear to affect young people’s decisions to go college. For example, the weak economy may help explain why a record share of high school graduates chose to enroll in college in 2009.Last year there were again great disparities in college enrollment among the various ethnic groups. Students of Asian heritage had the highest rate of college enrollment among new high school graduates, at 85 percent. This group was followed by white students (68.6 percent), black students (61.4 percent) and Hispanic students (59.6 percent).Among all recent high school graduates enrolled in college, the unemployment rate was 22.8 percent. The unemployment rate was higher for those who had not enrolled in college, at 33.4 percent. Remember, though, that jobless rates reflect only those people who are actively looking for work.
I suspect women had higher college completion rates even in my mother's generation, but many of them waited until their kids were school age to go to college. That was what my mother did, and many of the moms of my school friends.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the information I just found, men had higher college graduation rates all last century up until the 1980s, although from 1900-1930 the gap was minimal. This was for graduation by age 35.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/goldin/files/homecoming.pdf
Graduation by age 35 doesn't work for the women of my mother's generation. She was in her early 40's when she graduated - not unusual because women in that era mainly waited until their kids were all in school before they started, and even then, they had to go part time because of kid constraints.
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