Census Bureau Partner Update: After a Recent Upswing, College Enrollment Declines, Census Bureau Reports

According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today, college enrollment in fall 2012 plunged by half a million (467,000) from one year earlier. This decline, which includes both graduate and undergraduate enrollment, follows a period of substantial growth ─ 3.2 million ─ between 2006 and 2011.

 

Hispanics didn’t follow the trend, as the number enrolled in college grew by 447,000 from 2011 to 2012. Meanwhile, non-Hispanic white enrollment declined by 1.1 million and black enrollment by 108,000. From 2006 to 2012, the percentage of all college students who were Hispanic rose from 11 percent to 17 percent. The percentage who were black also rose (from 14 percent to 15 percent), but the percent of non-Hispanic white students declined from 67 percent to 58 percent.

 

Also released today was School Enrollment in the United States: 2011, a report that examines the characteristics of people enrolled in school at all levels.

 

For more information: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/education/cb13-153.html

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