Study Finds Fewer Men Are Enrolling in College, Especially 4-Year Programs
“Today, only 39% of young men who have completed high school are enrolled in college, down from 47% in 2011.”
We’re constantly told that we need to get more girls in college and STEM fields. The truth is that girls already outnumber men in college.
From Pew Research:
Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools
College enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. In 2022, the total number of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college was down by approximately 1.2 million from its peak in 2011.
Most of the decline is due to fewer young men pursuing college. About 1 million fewer young men are in college but only 0.2 million fewer young women. As a result, men make up 44% of young college students today, down from 47% in 2011, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data.
This shift is driven entirely by the falling share of men who are students at four-year colleges. Today, men represent only 42% of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47% in 2011.
At two-year colleges, which are largely community colleges, the drop in enrollment has been similar for men and women, so the gender balance has not changed much. Men represent 49% of students ages 18 to 24, up slightly from 48% in 2011.
The decline in young college enrollment since 2011 is not driven by a drop in the overall number of 18- to 24-year-old high school graduates. That number has modestly increased since 2011.
Instead, the falling share of young high school graduates who are enrolling in college is causing the decline. And the drop has been greater among young men than women.
Today, only 39% of young men who have completed high school are enrolled in college, down from 47% in 2011. The rate at which young female high school graduates enroll has also fallen, but not by nearly as much (from 52% to 48%).
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Every age has its peculiar folly….
[Human beings], it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”
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Females outnumber males in colleges, but what’s called for is more courses in gender studies, and DEI intersectional feminist dingbat presidents. Because toxic masculinity.
“We’re constantly told that we need to get more girls in college and STEM fields.”
Why would men want to go to college these days unless it’s for STEM or business?
Men are treated almost as badly on campus as Jews are.
Why would a high school student go on to a school who has built a total infrastructure denigrating the student’s being? How on the first day they are labeled oppressors?
“Women also feel worse about their student-loan debt: they’re more stressed by it and less likely to know how to repay it.”
BUSINESS INSIDER August 9, 2019
Recently a dental lab courier I know picked up a case from a dentist who uses that lab. As he was processing those incoming cases he saw a note from the dentist on her Rx slip about the case where she said it was a difficult impression to take of the patient’s mouth. Her note said the patient’s mouth was very “smol”. It took him a few seconds to interpret the term. A dentist can’t spell the word “small”. This doesn’t inspire confidence.
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There has to be a fair number of young men are simply scared of going anywhere near a college these days, all it takes is one allegation by someone to ruin your life. The young man has no real recourse in the matter, many have no opportunity to confront the accuser, to get a fair hearing in front of an unbiased group who will decide your fate.
Maybe some have decided to pursue a trade and entered an apprentice program. Most involve some classroom work at some point; would those people be included in these surveys?
Maybe the brighter ones realize that spending $50K a year for a degree that might not be very valuable is a bad idea, compared to a program that actually paid you something while you learn a useful set of skills….
Maleness is not so toxic when it enables one to get the sewer flowing again or the power company’s substation back on line. In the dead of winter.
Many colleges are admitting men under slightly lower standards than women to keep the percentage of women from exceeding 60%.