Why Are Women More Interested in Going to College Than Men? - Education - GOOD

Why Are Women More Interested in Going to College Than Men? - Education - GOOD:

Why Are Women More Interested in Going to College Than Men?

by Liz Dwyer

It's been a generation since the gender balance on campus began to shift in favor of the ladies. More women than men have been going to college since the 1980s; since 1996, more women have been graduating; and last year U.S. Census data revealed that women now earn more graduate degrees. According to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics, the trend of women dominating higher education is going to continue.
Much of the data in this latest report confirms what we already know—more women than men end up enrolling in college and end up graduating. But, the data also reveals that female students are more likely than men to want to go to college and that disparity in aspiration starts early. Indeed, 59 percent of female high school freshman