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Article: Vital Signs: Graduation Rates of African-American College Students at Small Colleges and Universities
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 30, 1998
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Vital Signs: Graduation Rates of African-American College Students at Small Colleges and Universities
In the Autumn 1997 issue of JBHE we reported that at the nation's 300 largest universities only 38 percent of black students who enter college as freshmen went on to graduate from the same institution within a six-year period. Whites on the other hand posted a graduation rate 21 points higher, at 59 percent.
Now we turn to a view of graduation rates at the smaller colleges and universities that make up the NCAA's Divisions II and III.(*) Nationwide the graduation rate for black students at mid-size colleges and universities is 34 percent compared to a rate of 48 percent for whites. At small ...