College enrollment by race/ethnicity in the US, 1976-2030F (Millions of Students)
HolonIQ; National Center for Education Statistics (1976-2030P)
23 Oct 2023
HolonIQ, National Center for Education Statistics (1976-2030P) The college enrollment landscape witnessed a shift in 2010, where White student enrollments fell for the first time since the turn of the century. Since then, there has been a 20% decline in White student enrollments, reaching 10M students by 2023. In 2012, Hispanic enrollment surpassed Black enrollment for the first time since the 1970s, growing by 30% since then and currently holding an enrollment gap of 1.28M students. Strategies including targeted recruitment efforts to recruit Hispanic students, improved programming for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on campus, and the choice made by many schools to eliminate the necessity for standardized test scores have contributed to the increase in Hispanic enrollment rates. The rapid growth in the Hispanic population is a likely contributor, with the Hispanic population reaching 62.1 million in 2020, which comprises 19% of the US populace. This makes Hispanics the second-largest racial/ethnic group.
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