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Examining the Gender Gap in College Participation Rates
In 2012, 71 percent of women high school graduates had enrolled in some type of postsecondary education program by October of that year. For men the rate was 61 percent. The gender gap is even larger for Hispanics and African Americans.
Education Department Projects a Widening of the Gender Gap in Higher Education
By the fall of 2022, the Department of Education projects that there will be just over 14 million women in enrolled in higher education compared to about 9.8 million men. That year women will make up 59 percent of total enrollments.
The Growing Gender Gap in British Higher Education
A higher education official stated, “There remains a stubborn gap between male and female applicants which, on current trends, could eclipse the gap between rich and poor within a decade.”
New Data Shows a Drop in Enrollments of Women in Higher Education
In 2012, there were 21,147,055 students enrolled at degree-granting institutions in the United States. Of these, 12,063,631, or 57 percent were women. Enrollments of women were down by 2.3 percent from the fall of 2011.
Early Admission of Women to Leading Colleges and Universities
Several of the nation’s highest ranked colleges and universities have reported data on students they have accepted under early decision or early action admissions plans. Some have provided data broken down by gender.
The Gender Gap in Online Enrollments for Harvard’s MOOCs
For all course offerings by HarvardX since it has launched, there have been 586,691 students enrolled in all courses. Only 39.1 percent of the students have identified themselves as women.
Record Enrollments of Women at the University of Texas School of Engineering
Of this fall’s entering class of 1,161 students, 29 percent are women. This is the highest percentage in the school’s history. Last year, women made up 26 percent of the entering class. Total enrollments of women at the school are also at record levels.
The Gender Gap in College Participation Rates
For students who graduated from high school in 2012, more than 71 percent of women were enrolled in college by October 2012. For male high school graduates in 2012, only 61.3 percent were enrolled in college the next fall.
The Gender Gap in Graduate School Enrollments and Degree Attainments
In the fall of 2012 there were 1,016,115 women enrolled in U.S. graduate programs. They made up 58.5 percent of all students in graduate programs. In the 2011-12 academic year, women earned nearly 60 percent of all master’s degrees and 52.2 percent of all doctorates awarded at U.S. universities.
Nearly 40 Million American Women and Girls Are Enrolled in School
At all levels of schooling through high school in 2012, there were slightly higher numbers of males than females. But there were 11,327,000 women enrolled in college or graduate school compared to only 8,602,000 men.
Brenau University Reports Its Largest First-Year Class in History
Brenau University, the educational institution for women in Gainesville, Georgia, has the largest first-year class in the college’s history. There are 215 women in this year’s entering class, up from 176 a year ago.
Lots of Women at the University of Georgia’s White Coat Ceremonies
Women make up more than 70 percent of the new students at the College of Veterinary Medicine and more than 65 percent of the new students in the College of Pharmacy.
Measuring the Gender Gap in American Higher Education
During the 2011-12 academic year, preliminary Department of Education statistics show women making up 57.4 percent of all students enrolled in degree-granting institution and 58.1 percent of all students who earned degrees at these institutions.
Women Are Underrepresented Among Students Admitted to Princeton’s Graduate Programs
Princeton reports that of the students admitted to its graduate programs 447 are women and 761 are men. Thus, women make up 37 percent of all admitted students. Many of Princeton’s top graduate programs are in STEM disciplines, where historically women have been underrepresented.
Harvard Business School Expects to Enroll a Record Percentage of Women
The business school expects women to make up 41 percent of new MBA students enrolling this fall. This is up 1 percentage point from last year and 6 percentage points from a decade ago.
Villanova Outreach Program Increases Percentage of Women in Engineering Programs
This spring 31.4 percent of the engineering graduates at Villanona are women. This is highest percentage in university history.
Women Enrollments in Higher Education Decline by Nearly 3 Percent from 2012 to 2013
A report from Student Clearing House reports that in the spring 2013 semester there were 10,910,335 women enrolled in degree-granting institutions of higher education in the United States. This was down 2.7 percent from the spring 2012 semester.
Report Analyses the Status of Women at Penn State
The report found that while women enrollments in the law and medical schools mirror the national averages, women in other graduate programs and in undergraduate programs trail the national norm.
Leading Schools Announce Admission Numbers for Women
Several of the nation’s leading colleges and universities have just released data on the students they admitted for the Class of 2017. Some of the leading schools offered a breakdown on the gender of the students admitted.
Gender Gap in Enrollments in Higher Education Projected to Widen
Despite a lower rate of growth, Women are expected to increase their enrollments at a rate higher than men and the growth in women degree earners at all levels is expected to outpace the increases for men.
Women’s Progress in Closing the Gender Gap in Law School Enrollments Comes to a Halt
In 2001-02 academic year, women made up 49 percent of the total enrollments in U.S. law schools. But since that time, progress in closing the gender gap has not only come to a halt, it has reversed.
How Women Fared in Early Decision Admissions at Two Ivy League Universities
Women made up 53.6 percent of all students accepted in the early decision admissions program at Brown University and 49 percent of all students accepted early at Princeton University.
The Colleges Where Women Are Most Likely to Join Sororities
There are more than 300,000 women undergraduate students nationwide who belong to sororities. At Welch College in Nashville, Tennessee, almost all women undergraduates are sorority members.
First-Year Women at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
Of the 27 high-ranking universities that responded to our survey, women were a majority of the entering students at 12 schools. Women were accepted at a higher rate than men at only six institutions.
Major Increase in Women Enrollments in STEM Fields at Iowa’s Public Universities
Today, one third of all women enrolled at Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa are enrolled in STEM disciplines.
The Gender Gap in Australian Higher Education
In 2011 there were 533,476 women enrolled in higher education in Australia compared to 399,050 men. Women earned 54.6 percent of all degrees earned.
The Gender Gap in Medical School Enrollments Has Widened in Recent Years
According to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, women were 49.6 percent of all new medical school students in 2003 but only 46.4 percent of first-time enrollees in 2012.
Women Enrollments: CalTech vs. MIT
Women are 37 percent of the entering class at CalTech and 46 percent of first-year students at MIT.
More Than 12 Million American Women Are Enrolled in Higher Education
In 2011, women made up 57.3 percent of all students in American higher education and 58.7 percent of all students in graduate programs.
The Gender Gap in Graduate Enrollments
In the 2010-11 academic year there was slightly more than 1 million women enrolled in graduate programs at U.S. universities. Women made up 60.9 percent of the total enrollments in master’s degree programs and 51.2 percent of total enrollments in doctoral degree programs.
University of Arkansas Reports Major Increase in Women Engineering Students
Since 2007, the number of women enrolled in the College of Engineering has more than doubled from 247 to 519. Yet, women still make up only 19 percent of all engineering students.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Enrolls Its Largest Class of First-Year Women Students
There are 314 women in the Class of 2016 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. They make up 32 percent of the entering class.
Women Make Up Less Than a Third of New Students at the University of Nevada School of Medicine
In this year’s entering class at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, there are 47 men and only 22 women.
The Dwindling Number of Men in British Higher Education
A the Royal Veterinary College, white men are now classified as an underrepresented minority.
William Peace University Matriculates Its First Male Full-Time Students
Men make up about one third of the students in this year’s entering class at what was previously called Peace College.
