Education
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African American Education Facts
Favorable Numbers in Nationwide Enrollment Statistics
„ A new report from the U.S. Depart- students taking the Graduate Mana- highest number ever recorded. Black
ment of Education states that in 2007, gement Admission Test (GMAT) has enrollments were up 5 percent from a
the latest year for which complete doubled. The number of black GMAT year ago.
data is available, there were 2.2 mil- test takers is up 26 percent over the „ At the University of Kansas black
lion black students enrolled in higher past four years alone. freshman enrollments increased 28
education in the United States. This „ U.S. Department of Education data percent in the 2008-09 academic year.
is the highest level of enrollments for shows that in 2006 there were 18,000 The number of African-American
African Americans in history. African Americans enrolled in students on campus was the highest in
„ Blacks now make up 13.1 percent of bachelor’s degree programs in nurs- the university’s history.
all students enrolled in higher educa- ing. They made up 12 percent of all „ At the University of Alabama in
tion in the United States. Measured by undergraduate nursing students. This Tuscaloosa black freshman enroll-
percentage of population, blacks have is a marked improvement since 1990. ments were up a whopping 37 percent
now reached parity with whites. At that time there were 6,862 blacks in 2008-09. Blacks made up 10.3
„ In 2007, the latest year for which enrolled in undergraduate nursing percent of all first-year students.
statistics are available, there were programs. They made up 9.9 percent „ The University of Georgia reports
more than 230,000 African Americans of all nursing students. that there were 381 black freshman
enrolled in degree-granting graduate students in its 2008-09 entering class.
schools. This is an all-time high. In
1990 there were 84,000 African Ame-
Good News at
This was the largest number of black
freshmen at the University of Georgia
ricans enrolled in graduate school,
Particular Colleges
since 1995.
barely more than a third of black „ The University of Kentucky reports
enrollments today.
and Universities
that it enrolled more African-Ame-
„ Older blacks are more likely than „ Harvard University calls the Class rican freshmen in the fall of 2008
older whites to be enrolled in college. of 2013, which will matriculate this than at any time in its history. There
According to a report from the U.S. coming fall, the most racially diverse were 341 black first-year students at
Census Bureau, 12 percent of the in its history. Most notable is the fact the university this past fall, up from
black population in the 25 to 35 age that 10 percent of the incoming class 258 a year earlier. This is an increase
group were enrolled in higher educati- is African American. Black student of more than 32 percent over the
on. In contrast, only 9.8 percent of all yield was 71 percent in 2009, up from previous year. Blacks made up 8.4
whites in this age group were enrolled 64 percent a year ago. percent of the freshman class. This is
in higher education. „ The original charter of Rice Univer- a significant level in view of the fact
„ The Department of Education re- sity prohibited the admission of black that blacks are just 7.2 percent of the
ports that there are nearly 1.8 mil- students. This was not rescinded until overall Kentucky population.
lion African Americans enrolled in 1965. In recent years large numbers of „ There are now 29 colleges that are
postsecondary career and technical black students have enrolled at Rice. members of the Council for Christian
education programs. Blacks make up The number of blacks applying to Colleges at which black enrollments
16.6 percent of all students enrolled in Rice this year is up nearly 13 percent are 10 percent or more. This is more
these programs. from a year ago. Preliminary figures than triple the number in 1997.
„ In 2008 blacks made up 6.1 percent of show that there will be 65 blacks in „ This fall Carnegie Mellon, the highly
all students enrolled in Advanced Pla- this fall’s entering class. This would selective university in Pittsburgh, will
cement courses in high school. These be an all-time record number of inco- have the largest number of incoming
courses are equivalent to introductory ming black students. black students in its history. Prelimi-
courses at the college level. A decade „ The University of Missouri at Co- nary figures show that there will be
ago blacks made up 3.8 percent of the lumbia reports that black enrollments 105 black freshmen at Carnegie Mel-
students in these courses. increased by 27.5 percent in the lon this fall, up from 79 a year ago. In
„ Today almost one third of all African 2008-09 academic year. The number 2008 blacks made up 5.3 percent of
Americans ages 18 to 24 are enrol- of black freshmen on campus was the the entering class. This year, blacks
led in higher education. A generation highest in university history. will be 7.4 percent of the freshman
ago in 1981 less than 20 percent of all „ At Indiana University in Bloomington class.
blacks in this age group were enrolled. there are 1,749 black students enrolled
„ Over the past decade the number of in the 2008-09 academic year, the
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