African American Total Undergraduate Enrollment in degree-granting Postsecondary Institutions -Selected years,1980-2024
(In Millions)
African American
Year Undergraduates enrolled
over total student enrollment. Percent
1980. 1.0/10.5 09.0%
1990. 1.2/13.8. 09.0%
2000 1.7/15.3. 11.2%
2010 3.0/21.0. 13.4%
2016. 2.6/19.8. 13.0%
2021 2.3/19.8 12.4%
2022. 2.3/19.0 12.1%
2024 3.4/26.6 13.0%
By 2024, African American undergraduate enrollment reached 13 percent of all student enrollment, 3.4 million.
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College Enrollment Rates by
Race/Ethnicity (18- to 24-year-olds, 2022)
African American, 36 percent
Hispanic or Latino, 33 percent
White, 41 percent and
Asian, 61 percent
In 1980 the college enrollment rate for Whites was only 27.3 percent and for African Americans only 19.4 percent.
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Source: NCES table 306