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The decline of the college-educated American man

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The decline of the college-educated American man

The number of young men pursuing U.S. college degrees has fallen in recent years. In 2022, there were 1 million fewer American men ages 18-24 enrolled in college than there were in 2011, according to Pew Research Center.

Fewer women are also going to college, but just slightly, with the number at 200,000. With noticeably fewer men enrolling in higher education, the widening gender discrepancy has left many college administrators, educators, and economists wondering why young men are fleeing the system in alarming numbers. And the trend is mirrored in most countries.

For starters, men who forgo college have a worse financial outlook. Those men, some of whom say they want a quick entrance into the job market, can expect a loss of nearly $1 million in lifetime earnings on average, according to Georgetown University.

The challenge of attracting men to enroll in and graduate from college is not new—it's existed since the Great Recession and worsened during the coronavirus pandemic—but recent data shows that it's getting even worse.

To understand the dynamics at play, Spokeo analyzed data from the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics to explore the yearslong decline of young men's college enrollment.

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