September 22, 2006

With More Women and African-Americans, Enrollments Rise at Graduate Schools

By JANE R. PORTER

Graduate-student enrollment in American colleges and universities continued to increase in 2005, thanks largely to a growing number of female and African-American students and the first gain in new international-student enrollments in four years, according to a report by the Council of Graduate Schools.

The new report, "Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 1986 to 2005," is based on an annual survey of 643 institutions responsible for enrolling 70 percent of all graduate students and

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