The Progress of Blacks in Master’s Degree Attainments

In the 2003-04 academic year blacks earned 50,657 master’s degrees at U.S. colleges and universities. The number of blacks earning a master’s degree was up more than 14 percent from the previous year. Since 2000 the number of blacks earning master’s degrees is up by more than 41 percent. The number of blacks earning master’s degrees has tripled since 1990.

The percentage of all master’s degrees earned by blacks has increased from 5 percent in 1985 to 9.1 percent today.

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