News and Views; Good News! College Enrollments of Recent Black High School Graduates Are on the Rise

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: July 31, 2005 | Copyright information

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
07-31-2005
A new report from the Census Bureau reveals that recent black high school
graduates are narrowing the gap with whites in college enrollments. The
data shows that of the 333,000 African Americans who graduated from high
school in 2003, 194,000, or 58.3 percent, had enrolled in college by the
fall of that year. For whites, 66.2 percent of the 2003 high school
graduates went on to enroll in college that fall.

In 2002, 54.6 percent of black high school graduates enrolled in college
the next fall compared to 64.2 percent of white high school ...

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