Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011 | Pew Hispanic Center

Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011 | Pew Hispanic Center:

Now Largest Minority Group on Four-Year College Campuses

Hispanic Student Enrollments Reach New Highs in 2011

by Richard Fry and Mark Hugo Lopez

I.  OVERVIEW

The nation’s Hispanic ¹student population reached a number of milestones in 2011, according to an analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. ²  Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation’s college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year (Fry, 2011). But as their growth among all college-age students continues to outpace other groups,