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Over Half of First-Time Graduate Students in 2023 Were Women
In the fall 2023 semester, women represented over half of first-time graduate students at the master’s degree and certificate level (58.2 percent) and the doctoral level (56.5 percent).Women also earned the majority of all graduate certificates, master’s degrees, and doctorates awarded by U.S. institutions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
First-Year Law School Enrollments: Women Outnumber Men in All Racial and Ethnic Groups
The number of entering first-year students was 39,689, up nearly 5 percent from 2023. Of these, 22,260 were women. Thus, women made up 56 percent of all entering students at U.S. law schools.
Graduate Business Schools Have Experienced an Increase in Women Applicants
The share of women who have applied to graduate business programs has experienced a small increase. Over the past 10 years, women have consistently represented about 40 percent of all graduate business program applicants. In 2024, this increased to 42 percent. Roughly 55 percent of business graduate programs reported growth in women applicants.
Salem College Experiences Record-Breaking Undergraduate Enrollment
For the Fall 2024 semester, the college’s total undergraduate enrollment grew by 10 percent from the previous year. The women’s college also experienced its third consecutive year of record-breaking growth in applications.
College Enrollments Increased This Past Fall, the First Uptick Since the Pandemic
Women’s enrollment stabilized this year with a small increase of 0.3 percent after large pandemic-era declines. Men’s enrollment continued to grow with 64,000 additional male student enrollments from a year ago. This was an increase of 1.1 percent.
Young Men Are Largely Responsible for the Overall Drop in College Enrollments
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that college enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. Much of this decline is because of lower enrollments of men at four-year colleges and universities. Today, men represent only 42 percent of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47 percent in 2011.
Women’s First-Time Enrollments in Graduate Education Show a Significant Drop
A total of 508,646 graduate students enrolled for the first time in graduate certificate, education specialist, master’s, or research doctoral programs in Fall 2022. This was a 4.7 percent decline from 2021. Women saw a 5.6 percent decline, compared to 3.5 percent for men. Women were 58 percent of all first-time enrollments in 2022.
Enrollments Rebound at the Virginia Military Institute Two Years After Report Found Rampant Sexism on Campus
Two years after a blistering independent investigation found entrenched sexism and racism at the Virginia Military Institute and a subsequent drop in enrollments, this fall the number of first-year students has increased significantly. Women are 14.5 percent of the incoming class.
A Snapshot of the School Enrollment of Girls and Women in the United States
In 2021, women made up a larger percentage of college and graduate students than was the case at all other lower grades of education. Women were 48.4 percent of all high school students but 55.4 percent of all undergraduate college students and 59.5 percent of all students in graduate schools
The Widening Gender Gap in College Aspirations
A new survey by YouthTruth looks at the college plans of the high school class of 2023. Some 77 percent of female high school seniors believe they will actually enroll in college. For males, only 57 percent thought they would actually enroll. That’s a 20 percentage point gender gap among college seniors who think they will enroll in college.
Gender Differences in Acceptance Rates at Ivy League Institutions
The difference was the widest at Brown University. In this application cycle, 6.73 percent of male applicants were accepted to Brown, while only 4.06 percent of women were. Women were 62.6 percent of all applicants but only 50. 2 percent of accepted students and 51.8 percent of the entering class.
Gender Differences in Enrollments in Post-Pandemic Higher Education
In October 2021, there were 10,061,000 women enrolled in higher education in the United States. They made up 58.1 percent of all enrollments in higher education. Women were 58.3 percent of all students entering graduate school in the fall of 2021. They were 57.8 percent of all students in their second or more years in graduate school.
Women to Continue to Make Progress Toward Equality at Leading Business Schools
The data shows that although overall enrollments in MBA programs are down, the number of women students increased in 2022. There are 17 leading business schools where women make up at least 45 percent of all enrollments. Leading the way are the business schools at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, where women were 50 percent or more of all enrollments.
Gender Disparities in Applications, Admissions, and Enrollments for the Fall of 2020
A total of 830,377 women enrolled full-time at four-year colleges and universities in the fall of 2020, compared to 646,780 men. So women were 56.2 percent of all first-time, full-time enrollments for fall 2020. Remember that enrollments overall were down significantly that year due to the pandemic.
The Large Gender Gap in Higher Education Enrollments Narrowed Slightly This Fall
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds that enrollments of women in undergraduate programs this fall are down 2.1 percent, compared to a decline of 0.7 percent for men. Women’s enrollments in graduate programs are down 1.9 percent this year. For men, graduate enrollments are down 1.1 percent.
Since the Pandemic Began, 665,000 Fewer Women Are Enrolled in Higher Education
Community colleges contributed most to this loss with 251,000 fewer women. This was a drop of 9.2 percent. During the same period, male enrollments in community colleges declined by 5.6 percent. Decreases were smaller at private four-year colleges and universities.
First-Year Women Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
For the eleventh year in a row, the highest percentage of women in the entering class among this large group of leading research universities is found at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lower Retention Rates for Men Are a Significant Contributing Factor to the Higher Education Gender Gap
New data from the Census Bureau shows that women were 55 percent of all students entering college in the fall of 2020. In October 2020, there were 1,058,000 men enrolled in the fourth year of higher education compared to 1,467,000 women. Thus women were 58 percent of all students in their fourth year of college.
Gender Trends in Higher Education Enrollments in the Age of the Global Pandemic
New research from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that higher education enrollments of women are down 3.6 percent from a year ago, slightly more than the decline for men. But over the two-year period from 2019 to 2021, enrollments of women have dropped 5.3 percent compared to more than 9 percent for men.
Women’s Enrollments in Graduate School Held Steady After the Onset of the Pandemic
New data from the Council on Graduate Schools women shows women were only 29.3 percent of all first-time graduate students in engineering. Women were 33.6 percent of all first-time graduate students in mathematics and computer science, down from 34.6 percent in 2019.
Undergraduate Business Programs at the University of Southern California Reach Gender Parity
For the first time, the undergraduate business administration degree program at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has reached gender parity in its first-year class. Women make up 52 percent of the incoming Class of 2025. Two years ago, women made up 43 percent of the incoming class.
The Pandemic Widened the Gender Gap in Higher Education Enrollments
There were 11,350,777 women students enrolled in higher education last fall. In the fall of 2019, there were 11,274,609 women enrolled. Thus, enrollments of women were up slightly. In contrast, there were 8,004,350 men enrolled in high education in the fall of 2020, A year, earlier, 8,362,890 men were enrolled. Thus, while women’s enrollments were up, the enrollments of men dropped by 4.3 percent.
Sweet Briar College Reports Its Largest Incoming Group of Students Since 2013
After almost closing its doors in 2015, there were just 79 first-year women at Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 2017. This fall, Sweet Briar welcomed 205 new students, the college’s largest incoming group since 2013.
How Women Undergraduate Students Were Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education finds that more than 86 percent of all women undergraduates reported that they had experienced enrollment disruptions due to the pandemic. Some 4.4 percent of women said they withdrew from their college or university and 3.8 percent of all women undergraduate took a leave of absence.
The Gender Gap in Enrollment Declines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Male undergraduates are increasingly falling behind their female counterparts during this pandemic. In the spring semester, male enrollments are down by 8.9 percent from the spring 2020 semester. For women undergraduates, enrollments are down 4 percent.
Women Are Closing the Gap in Enrollments in Graduate Degree Programs in STEM and Health Fields
Men still outnumber women in master’s and doctoral degree programs as well as in postdoctoral researchers in STEM and health disciplines at U.S. academic institutions. But new data from the National Science Foundation shows that women are closing the gender gap.
The Gender Gap in College Enrollments of Recent High School Graduates
New U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in 2019, 61.3 percent of male high school graduates had enrolled in postsecondary education by October of that year. For women high school graduates in 2019, 69.3 percent were enrolled in college by October.
Survey Finds Women Are Making Progress in Enrollments at High-Ranking Business Schools
The website Poets & Quants recently released its survey of women at the nation’s highest-ranked business schools. it found that that women made up 49 percent of the students in the entering class at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. This was the largest percentage of women among the top business schools.
A Snapshot of Women Enrollments in Graduate Schools in the United States
In 2019, women made up less than 39 percent of all graduate student enrollments in engineering, mathematics and computer science, and physical sciences. Women were more than 75 percent of all graduate students in education, the health sciences, and public administration.
Women Are More Likely to Apply to College and More Likely to Be Accepted for Admission Than Men
New data from the U.S. Department of Education allows us to calculate that at degree-granting institutions that do not have open admissions, the acceptance rate for women in 2019 was 58.5 percent. For men, the overall acceptance rate at these schools was 54.5 percent.
A Snapshot of Enrollments at Women’s Colleges in the United States
New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that in 2018, there were 72,649 women enrolled at women’s colleges in the United States. These colleges also enrolled more than 2,600 full-time men.
Women Students Accepted for Admission at High-Ranking Colleges and Universities
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the admissions process for the Class of 2024 continues. Several of the nation’s leading colleges and universities have announced demographic data on the gender of students accepted for admission.
The Gender Gap in College Participation Rates
In October 2018, there were 13,421,000 women between the ages of 18 and 24 in the United States. Of these, 50.2 percent were enrolled in postsecondary education. For men in this age group, 44.7 percent were enrolled in postsecondary education. A similar college participation gap existed for 2018 high school graduates.
A Snapshot of the Gender Gap in Educational Enrollments in the United States
In October 2018, there were 8,373,000 men enrolled in higher education compared to 10,534,000 women. Thus, women made up 56 percent of all enrollments in higher education. Women made up nearly 60 percent of total enrollments in U.S. graduate schools.
Examining the Gender Gap in Graduate School Enrollments in the United States
In 2018, there were 1,081,528 women students in graduate degree programs in the United States. They made up 57 percent of all enrollments. Women made up 60 percent of the enrollments in master’s degree programs and 52 percent of all those enrolled in doctoral programs.
