Table 11-2. Total graduate and first-professional enrollment and percentage distribution of students in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1976–2006
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Level of student and race/ethnicity |
1976 |
1980 |
1990 |
1995 |
2000 |
2006 |
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Enrollment (in thousands) |
Graduate |
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|
|
|
|
|
Total |
1,323 |
1,341 |
1,586 |
1,732 |
1,850 |
2,231 |
White |
1,116 |
1,105 |
1,228 |
1,282 |
1,259 |
1,445 |
Total minority |
134 |
144 |
190 |
271 |
359 |
519 |
Black |
78 |
75 |
84 |
119 |
158 |
247 |
Hispanic |
26 |
32 |
47 |
68 |
95 |
136 |
Asian/Pacific Islander |
25 |
32 |
53 |
76 |
96 |
122 |
American Indian/Alaska Native |
5 |
5 |
6 |
8 |
10 |
14 |
Nonresident alien |
72 |
92 |
167 |
179 |
232 |
266 |
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First-professional |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
244 |
277 |
273 |
298 |
307 |
343 |
White |
220 |
248 |
221 |
223 |
220 |
242 |
Total minority |
21 |
26 |
47 |
67 |
78 |
93 |
Black |
11 |
13 |
16 |
21 |
24 |
27 |
Hispanic |
5 |
7 |
11 |
14 |
15 |
18 |
Asian/Pacific Islander |
4 |
6 |
19 |
30 |
37 |
46 |
American Indian/Alaska Native |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Nonresident alien |
3 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
8 |
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Percentage distribution |
Graduate |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
White |
84.4 |
82.4 |
77.4 |
74.0 |
68.0 |
64.8 |
Total minority |
10.2 |
10.7 |
12.0 |
15.6 |
19.4 |
23.3 |
Black |
5.9 |
5.6 |
5.3 |
6.8 |
8.5 |
11.1 |
Hispanic |
2.0 |
2.4 |
3.0 |
3.9 |
5.2 |
6.1 |
Asian/Pacific Islander |
1.9 |
2.4 |
3.4 |
4.4 |
5.2 |
5.5 |
American Indian/Alaska Native |
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.5 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
Nonresident alien |
5.5 |
6.9 |
10.5 |
10.4 |
12.6 |
11.9 |
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First-professional |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
White |
90.1 |
89.5 |
81.0 |
75.0 |
71.8 |
70.4 |
Total minority |
8.6 |
9.5 |
17.0 |
22.5 |
25.5 |
27.2 |
Black |
4.6 |
4.6 |
5.8 |
7.2 |
7.7 |
7.8 |
Hispanic |
1.9 |
2.4 |
3.9 |
4.6 |
5.0 |
5.4 |
Asian/Pacific Islander |
1.7 |
2.2 |
6.8 |
9.9 |
12.0 |
13.3 |
American Indian/Alaska Native |
0.5 |
0.3 |
0.4 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
Nonresident alien |
1.3 |
1.0 |
2.0 |
2.5 |
2.7 |
2.5 |
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NOTE: Because of underreporting and nonreporting of racial/ethnic data, some figures are slightly lower than corresponding data in other published tables. See supplemental note 3 for more information on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). See the glossary for definitions of minority and first-professional degree. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Digest of Education Statistics, 2008 (forthcoming), table 216 and NCES. (2003). Digest of Education Statistics, 2002 (NCES 2003-060), table 207, data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), “Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities” surveys, 1976 and 1980, and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), “Fall Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:90 and IPEDS-EF:95), and Spring 2001 and Spring 2007.
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