Who Produces Black Ph.D.’s?
Black students have their choice of college in a way that was not nearly as true decades ago, a fact borne out by the numbers: In 2006, one in five African American bachelor’s degree recipients earned their diplomas from historically black colleges and universities, compared to well over a third in 1977.
But even as they are educating a smaller proportion of black undergraduates, historically black colleges and universities are graduating a growing share of black Americans who go on to earn Ph.D.’s in science and engineering, a new report from the National Science Foundation reveals. The results suggest that the institutions are doing something different — and important — for the undergraduates they enroll.
The report takes a historical look at the undergraduate institutions attended by African Americans who received doctorates in science and engineering fields over the last 30 years. In some ways, the data show the ebb and flow of the centrality of historically black institutions in the education of black Americans. In the late 1970s, when more than 35 percent of black undergraduates attended historically black institutions, more than 40 percent of black doctorate recipients in science and engineering had earned their bachelor’s degrees from those institutions...
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