Blacks Show Progress in Professional School Enrollments

Last week JBHE reported that since the year 2000 black enrollments in graduate education had surged by 40 percent. Black enrollments in graduate professional schools of law, business, medicine, and other disciplines have also shown progress but not to the same degree. In 2004 there were 25,900 blacks enrolled in professional schools in the United States. This was up only slightly from 2003. Since the year 2000 black enrollments in professional schools have increased by only 10 percent.

But over the past generation, great progress was made, particularly in the 1990s. During that decade, black enrollments in professional schools increased by 48 percent.