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Bleemer, Zachary; Mehta, Aashish – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, College Students, Grade Point Average
Bleemer, Zachary; Mehta, Aashish – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Majors (Students), Educational Attainment