Hispanics have edged out other minority groups to become the most represented minority on university campuses nationwide.
Using data from the 2010 Census a Pew Research Center report found that the number of Hispanics enrolled in colleges across the country outpaced blacks for the first time, growing by 24 percent from 2009 to 2010.
While the population of 18-to-24-year-old Hispanics rose by only 7 percent over the same time period, the portion of young Hispanics who graduated high school reached 73 percent – increasing the population of Hispanics eligible to attend college.
Hispanic enrollment at GW likewise jumped 6.7 percent from 2009 to 2010, data from the Office of Institutional Research shows.
Richard Fry, the senior research associate at the Pew Research Center, said this shift in population makeup represents a gradual trend and does not expect dramatic change in student diversity any time soon.
“Demographic change for the nation as a whole tends to evolve slowly, not in fits and starts,” Fry said.
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