Graduate School Enrollment Rates
The graduate enrollment rate of bachelor’s degree recipients was higher among women than men across all racial and ethnic groups. The gender gap for racial and ethnic groups ranged from 4.4 percentage points for international students to about 23 percentage points for American Indian or Alaska Native students. Among Hispanic or Latino students, 33.2 percent of women enrolled in a graduate program after they received their bachelor’s degree, and 26.1 percent of men did so. Among Black or African American students, these figures were 30.5 percent for men and 39.0 percent for women.
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Source
U.S. Department of Education, Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, B&B: 16/20
Note:
Estimates exclude 2015-16 bachelor’s degree recipients who had completed a prior bachelor’s degree or higher.
Graduate enrollment includes enrollment in postbaccalaureate or post-master’s certificates, master’s degrees, research doctoral degrees, or professional and other doctoral degrees.
Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
Data for for the following should be interpreted with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate.
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Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander women, 2020
Data for for the following should be interpreted with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 50 percent of the estimate.
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American Indian or Alaska Native men, 2020
Reporting standards not met for the following data:
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Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander men, 2020
