More non African American students enroll at HBCUs – report

According to a new report, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are attracting more Asian and Latino students than ever before.

Many of the top HBCUs in the United States have showed a substantial increase in graduation rates in recent years.

The percentage of students who are not African American are attending these schools at much higher rates. Since 1980, Hispanic and Latino enrollment at HBCUs has jumped 123 percent, Asian enrollment has increased by 60 percent while White enrollment has remained a steady 13 percent for the past 20 years.

Overall, non-African American students tend to go to HBCUs because of location, because of curricular programs and because of low tuition. However, the fourth reason really is that they – unlike the experiences that many racial and ethnic minorities have at majority institutions, quite often – HBCUs, those in the minority, non-blacks, tend to have very positive experiences, and they tend to tell their friends about these good experiences.

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