Graphs - Race and Gender

As larger numbers of younger women enter and complete graduate school, their overall share of those with advanced degrees have rapidly increased.

Women have been a sizeable majority of the bachelor's degree recipients in Ohio for two decades, but graduating classes of men are now 18 percent larger than they were in 2001-02, increasing their share of the awards.

Over the long term, women have earned a growing share of bachelor's degrees in the "STEM" - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - fields. However, the growth has been unevenly distributed among the STEM disciples.

The "better half" is now the better-educated half of US married couples.

Ohio's campuses, public and private, have opportunity to reach out even further than they already do to reach racial minorities.

Ohio independent colleges and universities award proportionately more of the state's bachelor's degrees, and especially last year to African American students.

This lower student-to-degree ratio once again demonstrates the greater effectiveness of Ohio's independent colleges in educating all the state's citizens.

As women are increasingly dominating higher education enrollments -- in 2007, they constituted 55 percent of undergraduates at public and independent campuses nationwide -- they also graduate faster.

Ohio’s independent colleges serve many different types of students, but but more than 2/3 are Ohio residents, or undergraduates, or attend full-time.

Independent College Share of Ohio 4-year Undergraduates v. Ohio Bachelor's Degrees, 2005-06

Ohio's independent colleges and universities are more productive in assisting minority populations to reach their educational goals.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics