Brooklyn College has Tiny Number of Enrollees for Identity-Based Programs

Brooklyn College has Tiny Number of Enrollees for Identity-Based Programs

Are young people finally figuring out that they are being ripped off?

Campus Reform reports:

Three Brooklyn College identity-based degree programs enroll just 28 students

Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, has three identity-based degrees in Africana Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies with fewer than 30 total enrolled students.

The college’s self-reported enrollment figures from fall 2025 show that 14 students were enrolled in Africana Studies, nine in Women’s and Gender Studies, and five in Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies. The departments had a total enrollment of 28 students in degree programs.

The college’s fall 2025 undergraduate enrollment totaled 10,527 students, meaning that the three degrees respectively enrolled 0.13, 0.09, and 0.05 percent of the student body.

Brooklyn College defended the departments in a statement provided to Campus Reform, sating they “teach nearly 900 students each semester through general‑education courses, far exceeding the number of declared majors”

To graduate from Brooklyn College, students must take 14 general education courses.

The Africana Studies program describes itself as a “multidisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that shifts the traditional paradigm by including people of the African diaspora as agents in the development of a worldview.”

The program lists more than 70 courses on its inventory page, including “Performing Blackness,” “Caribbean Sexualities,” “Black Women’s Fiction,” “Race, Gender and Inequality,” and “Black Theater.”

Women’s and Gender Studies students examine “cultural, economic, historical, political, social, and sexual issues using feminist and queer philosophical paradigms,” the program’s website states.

The Department of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies prepares “students for diverse careers through the interdisciplinary study of Latinx arts, culture, history, literature, economics, and society.”

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