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African American education levels: 77.6% of those ages 18+ are high school graduates (versus 83.1% of the population).
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14.6% of African Americans possess a Bachelor's degree or higher
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4.3% of African-Americans hold advanced degrees.
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Currently 105 colleges and universities, 51 public and 54 private, were established to provide Blacks with an education when there was nowhere else for them go in post-slavery years.
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African Americans are geographically concentrated in the South, where 55% of the African American population resides.
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Nearly 276,000 black students attend a black college or university in 2000, an 18% increase from 1980.
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Black colleges or universities have produced about 25% of all black college graduates, though they represent only 3% of all U.S. colleges and universities.
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The median income of Blacks ages 25+ with degrees is at least 45% higher than those without.
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Campuses and students have substantial spending power, an estimated $2.5+ billion in 1999 for 42 of the public Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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The State Farm Bayou Classic (football) draws about 76,000 fans and a large TV audience (NBC); the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament attracts 72,000+ fans and over 24 million TV viewers (WGN); and the Honda Battle of the Bands attracts about 60,000 fans.
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Blacks are twice as likely as Whites (68% compared to 34%) to think that black children still do not have education equality with white children
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77% of Blacks, compared to 92% of Whites, felt progress has been made in educational equality since the Brown versus the Board of Education decision.
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78% of Blacks (versus 89% of Whites) were satisfied with their educations, according to a 2003 Gallup poll.
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Blacks are twice as likely as Whites (68% compared to 34%) to think that black children still do not have education equality with white children, per the Gallup poll.
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Blacks are twice as likely as Whites to indicate that better teachers would improve the situation; Whites are twice as likely as Blacks to say more family involvement is a solution.
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79.5% of those ages 25+ completed high school or more in 2000 compared to 51.4% in 1980; 16.1% completed 4 years of college or more in 2000 versus 7.9% in 1980.
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39.3% of 18-24 year old high school graduates were enrolled in degree granting institutions in 2000 compared to 27.6% in 1980.
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The increase in degrees conferred to Blacks (1980 versus 2000) - Associate's 80.%, Bachelor's 83.%, Master's 123.%, Doctor's 7.5%, First-Professional 8.8%, Total 8.4%
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Education (31.7%) and business (25.8%) are the most popular areas of interest for Master's degrees obtained by African-Americans.
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Education (34.7%) and psychology (12.0%) are the most popular areas of interest for Doctor's degrees obtained by African-Americans.
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Blacks were nearly twice as likely as Whites to obtain a degree in education.
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Law (51.2%) and medicine (20.0%) for first-professional degrees which was comparable to Whites (50.5% and 17.6% respectively).
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78.7% of those ages 25+ were at least high school graduates in 2000 compared to 50.8% in 1980.
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16.3% of those ages 25+ were at least college graduates in 2000 compared 8.4% in 1980.
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Their college enrollment increased 71.2% during 1980-2000 versus 10.6% for white males; for 1990-2000, the increase was 38.8% versus 1.5% for white males.
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Blacks with Bachelor's degrees realized a 67.2% increase from $29,471 to $49,270.
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Black advanced degree holders realized a 54.0% increase in pay from $39,104 to $60,207.
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In 2006, as compared to Whites 15 years and over, a lower percentage of Blacks had earned at least a high school diploma (74 percent and 85 percent, respectively).
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More Black women than Black men had earned at least a bachelor's degree (16 percent compared with 14 percent),
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Among non-Hispanic Whites, a higher proportion of men than women had earned at least a bachelor's degree (25 percent and 24 percent, respectively).
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38 percent of black males graduated from Chicago high schools since 1995, while 62 percent have dropped out
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Nationally, a mere quarter of the 1.9 million black men (~500,000) between 18 and 24 attended college in 2000, the last year the American Council on Education reported such statistics.
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35% of black women in the same age group and 36% of all 18- to 24-year-olds were attending college in 2000
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Only 35 percent of the black men who enrolled in NCAA Division I schools in 1996 graduated within six years. The graduation rate of black men is the lowest of any population.
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White men graduated at a rate of 59 percent; Hispanic men, 46 percent; American Indian men, 41 percent; and black women, 45 percent.
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In 1999, there were 604,200 African-American men enrolled in higher education in the United States (there were 25 percent more black men in prison in the United States than were enrolled in institutions of higher education)
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