Report Finds Demographics of College Graduates Do Not Reflect Changes in Overall Student Body - American Council on Education

A new analysis from ACE finds that individuals who earned their baccalaureate degrees in 2007-08 were not nearly as racially diverse as the overall undergraduate student body. They were largely unmarried, childless, white young adults in their early 20s who were financially dependent on their parents and who seamlessly moved along the path toward degree attainment. The data-rich analysis also indicates that immediately after earning their degree, many of these graduates were between jobs or moving in and out of the labor force, although the situation had improved slightly a year later. By 2009, one in five of this group of graduates had returned to school. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Demographics-of-College-Graduates.aspx