Thursday, August 18, 2011

New Data on the Racial Gap in College Graduation Rates

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
August 18, 2011

The U.S. Department of Education recently released data on the success rate of the cohort of students who entered higher education in the fall of 2003. For all students who enrolled in any type of postsecondary educational institution in 2003, 36.4 percent of whites earned a bachelor’s degree by 2009. This was more than double the rate for blacks.

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