A second determinant of enrollment is the percentage of high school graduates who pursue a higher education experience. Graph 1 displays the college-going rate by ethnicity and race. The only group to display more than a modest increase is Hispanics, whose college-going rate of 71% has caught up with that of Whites. Graph 1 Percentage of High School Completers from 2000-2016 enrolled in 2- or 4-year colleges by the October immediately following high school completion
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October Supplement, 2000 through 2016. See Digest of Education Statistics 2017, table 302.20.
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