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Article: Vital Signs: Overall Graduation Rates of African-American College
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
09-30-1996
Vital Signs: Overall Graduation Rates of African-American College. Students Are on the Rise
As we reported in the Summer issue of JBHE, enrollments of blacks in higher education have reached all-time highs. However, blacks continue to have low rates of college completion. Only 37 percent of all black students who enrolled as freshmen in the years 1986 to 1989 graduated within six years. For whites, the overall graduation rate was 59 percent, or 22 percentage points higher than the rate for blacks.(*)
Although the black graduation rate remains dismally low, there is some reason for cheer. The black graduation rates in 1995 (for freshmen ...