The Huge Gender Gap in Black Enrollments in Graduate School

In a new report, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Graduate Schools reports that in the fall of 2005 there were 135,020 African-American students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States. Blacks made up nearly 12 percent of the 1,154,534 students enrolled in graduate programs nationwide.

Among all African-American students enrolled in graduate school in 2005, 70.7 percent were women. There were 95,000 black women enrolled in graduate programs compared to only 38,500 black men.