AT HBCUs, DOCTORAL STUDENT ENROLLMENTS INCREASE WHILE MASTER’S ENROLLMENTS DECLINE

By Charles Stuppard

Reprinted from ASEE Connections

This Databyte focuses on ASEE-member Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), examining graduate-level engineering enrollment (full-time) and degree attainment from 2009 through 2018. Over this time period, there has been an increase in the number of degrees awarded for both master’s and doctoral degree levels. Since 2013, however, master’s enrollment has decreased 47 percent, while doctoral enrollment has increased by 72 percent. As a result, the number of full-time doctoral students that attend HBCUs may soon surpass that of full-time master’s students.