African-American undergraduate enrollment numbers, by gender 1976-2011

This statistic shows the number of male and female African-American undergraduate students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States from 1976 to 2010. In 2010, there were 1,694,000 female African-American students enrolled in U.S. universities, as compared to 983,000 African-American males.

Number of African-American undergraduate students enrolled in the United States from 1976 to 2011, by gender (in 1,000)

Characteristic	Male	Female
2011	1,209	1,721
2010	983	1,694
2000	577	972
1990	448	699
1980	428	591
1976	431	513

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May 2012

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United States

Survey time period

1976 to 2011

Supplementary notes

Data for this graph was originally sourced from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS). 'Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities' survey, 1970 through 1985. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall enrollment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:90-99). and Spring 2001 through Spring 2011, Enrollment component; and Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions Model, 1980-2010.

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