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For 2011 high school graduates, women hold nearly an eight percentage point lead over men in initial college enrollment rates.

By a large margin, Harvard has the highest percentage of women among its dental students.

Arizona and Mississippi have the highest percentage of women among total enrollments in higher education.

But women make up 57 percent of all enrollments in higher education.

New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that in 2009, there were 342,400 African Americans enrolled in graduate programs in the United States. There were 243,600 black women enrolled in graduate programs, compared to 90,500 black men.

A half century ago in 1961, women made up 37.6 percent of all students enrolled in degree-granting institutions of higher learning in the United States. In 2009, women made up 57.1 percent of total enrollments.

The Connecticut Department of Education has released a new report on the college enrollment rates of students who graduated from public high schools in Connecticut in 2010. The data shows that 75 percent of women who graduated from high school enrolled in either a two-year or four-year college.