Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.<\/p>\n
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline, the Journal analysis found.<\/p>\n
This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n
In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues, said Douglas Shapiro, executive director of the research center at the National Student Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cU.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/pU4HdFvfma<\/a><\/p>\n At current rates, female college graduates will soon outnumber male grads by a unprecedented two-to-one margin<\/p>\n — Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) September 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n