May 18, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Decline in college enrollment rate
Of the high school
graduating class of 1999, 62.9 percent were enrolled in colleges or
universities in the fall. The college enrollment rate was somewhat lower
than a year earlier and was well below its October 1997 record high of
67.0 percent.
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Among the 2.9 million youth who graduated from high school in 1999,
about 1.8 million were enrolled in college the following fall. The college
enrollment rate of young women, at 64.4 percent, continued to exceed that
of young men (61.4 percent).
This information is from a supplement to the October 1999 Current
Population Survey (CPS), a monthly
nationwide survey of about 50,000 households that provides basic data on
national employment and unemployment. Additional information is available
from "College
Enrollment and Work Activity of 1999 High School Graduates,"
news release USDL 00-136.
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