Enrollment rates at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been surging while the opposite has proven to be true for Black students at the nation’s most competitive institutions of higher learning, according to reports. The fact that both of these truths are occurring in the aftermath of last year’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to bar race-based college admissions is, of course, no coincidence.
Several of the top-ranked universities in the U.S., for instance, have seen a sharp dip in the enrollment of Black students for this current semester. That includes Amherst College, Tufts University, the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all of which are consistently ranked among the nation’s best colleges.
MIT experienced the most dramatic dip in Black students. At the same time, though, its shares of white and Asian students “jumped,” as the New York Times described it.
Conversely, while enrollment at HBCUs had already been on the rise for years now, particularly recently, a growing number of Black colleges have also been reporting a record number of students applying, being accepted and enrolling.
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