Minority Enrollment at Universities

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<p>hudsonvalley, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has published a report on First Year enrollment of black students at top universities and colleges. It is interesting that some of the schools near the top of the list for first year enrollment don’t appear anywhere on your list. Retention problem? Or perhaps significant strides over the last couple of years? (For example, Vanderbilt’s freshman class last year was 10.3 percent black students, yet it does not appear on your list.)</p>

<p>For 2007: [The</a> State of Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.jbhe.com/features/57_freshmen.html]The”>The State of Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities)</p>

<p>From the report:

The progress at Vanderbilt University over the past decade has been extraordinary. In 1995 only 4 percent of all freshmen at Vanderbilt were black. This year the figure is 10.3 percent. Vanderbilt ranks fourth in this year’s survey, the same position it occupied last year. Two years ago Vanderbilt ranked tenth.

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