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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.ÂÂ
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.
