College graduation rate calculator

Beliavsky
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:10:35 +0000

The higher graduation rates at HBCUs are offset by a “hefty wage penalty”:

[The Declining Payoff From Black Colleges - NYTimes.com](The Declining Payoff From Black Colleges - The New York Times)



The study found that historically black colleges and universities — often known as H.B.C.U.’s — lifted the pay of their graduates in the 1970s relative to their attending other colleges, all else equal, but that these colleges now bring a hefty wage penalty, on average, for their graduates. One possible reason is that traditionally white institutions began doing a better job of educating their black students in recent years, according to the paper.



The study is [The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Roland Fryer, Michael Greenstone :: SSRN](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=979336) .