Table A-11-2. Total graduate and first-professional enrollment of students in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1976

Graduate and Professional Education

Table A-11-2. Total graduate and first-professional enrollment of students in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1976–2007

Level of student, race/ethnicity, and sex	Enrollment (in thousands)					Percentage distribution of students
Level of student, race/ethnicity, and sex	1976	1980	1990	2000	2007	1976	1980	1990	2000	2007
Graduate total	1,323	1,341	1,586	1,850	2,294	100	100	100	100	100
Race/ethnicity
White	1,116	1,105	1,228	1,259	1,465	84.4	82.4	77.4	68.0	63.9
Other racial/ethnic groups	134	144	190	359	548	10.2	10.7	12.0	19.4	23.9
Black	78	75	84	158	263	5.9	5.6	5.3	8.5	11.5
Hispanic	26	32	47	95	141	2.0	2.4	3.0	5.2	6.1
Asian/Pacific Islander	25	32	53	96	128	1.9	2.4	3.4	5.2	5.6
American Indian/Alaska
Native	5	5	6	10	16	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.7
Nonresident alien	72	92	167	232	280	5.5	6.9	10.5	12.6	12.2

Sex and race/ethnicity
Male	708	672	737	780	910	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White	589	539	539	503	560	83.2	80.1	73.1	64.5	61.5
Other racial/ethnic groups	64	65	82	135	186	9.0	9.7	11.1	17.3	20.5
Black	32	28	29	49	73	4.5	4.2	4.0	6.3	8.1
Hispanic	15	16	21	37	50	2.1	2.3	2.8	4.7	5.5
Asian/Pacific Islander	14	19	30	46	57	2.0	2.8	4.0	5.9	6.3
American Indian/Alaska
Native	3	2	3	4	5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.6
Nonresident alien	55	69	116	142	164	7.8	10.2	15.8	18.2	18.1
Female	615	669	849	1,071	1,383	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White	527	566	690	756	905	85.7	84.7	81.2	70.6	65.4
Other racial/ethnic groups	71	79	108	224	362	11.5	11.8	12.8	21.0	26.2
Black	47	47	55	109	190	7.6	7.0	6.4	10.2	13.7
Hispanic	12	16	27	59	91	1.9	2.4	3.1	5.5	6.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	10	13	24	50	71	1.6	1.9	2.8	4.7	5.1
American Indian/Alaska
Native	2	3	4	7	11	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.8
Nonresident alien	17	24	51	90	116	2.8	3.5	6.0	8.4	8.4

First-professional total	244	277	273	307	351	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Race/ethnicity
White	220	248	221	220	245	90.1	89.5	81.0	71.8	69.8
Other racial/ethnic groups	21	26	47	78	97	8.6	9.5	17.0	25.5	27.7
Black	11	13	16	24	27	4.6	4.6	5.8	7.7	7.8
Hispanic	5	7	11	15	19	1.9	2.4	3.9	5.0	5.5
Asian/Pacific Islander	4	6	19	37	48	1.7	2.2	6.8	12.0	13.7
American Indian/Alaska
Native	1	1	1	2	3	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.7
Nonresident alien	3	3	5	8	9	1.3	1.0	2.0	2.7	2.5

Sex and race/ethnicity
Male	190	198	167	164	178	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White	172	180	138	122	131	90.9	90.5	82.6	74.4	73.3
Other racial/ethnic groups	15	17	25	37	43	7.7	8.4	15.1	22.4	24.1
Black	7	7	7	9	11	3.8	3.7	4.4	5.8	5.9
Hispanic	3	5	6	8	9	1.8	2.3	3.8	4.9	5.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	3	4	11	18	22	1.5	2.1	6.5	11.1	12.2
American Indian/Alaska
Native	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.7
Nonresident alien	3	2	4	5	5	1.3	1.1	2.3	3.1	2.6
Female	54	78	107	143	173	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
White	48	68	84	98	114	87.3	86.9	78.5	68.7	66.1
Other racial/ethnic groups	6	10	21	41	54	11.7	12.3	20.0	28.9	31.5
Black	4	5	9	14	17	7.2	7.0	8.0	9.8	9.7
Hispanic	1	2	4	7	10	1.9	2.4	4.0	5.2	5.8
Asian/Pacific Islander	1	2	8	19	26	2.1	2.6	7.4	13.1	15.3
American Indian/Alaska
Native	#	#	1	1	1	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.8
Nonresident alien	1	1	2	3	4	1.0	0.8	1.5	2.3	2.4
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: Because of underreporting and nonreporting of racial/ethnic data, some estimates are slightly lower than corresponding data in other published tables. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Nonresident aliens are shown separately since information about their race/ethnicity is not available. For more information on race/ethnicity, see supplemental note 1. For more information on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), see supplemental note 3. For more information on the classification of postsecondary institutions, see supplemental note 8. See the glossary for definitions of nonresident alien and first-professional degree. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). (2009). Digest of Education Statistics, 2008 (NCES 2009-020), table 216, data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), “Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities” surveys, 1976 and 1980, and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), “Fall Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:90), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2008.

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