The Education System Leaves Boys Behind

The Pittsburgh Review Tribune reports:

Colleges are seeing the number of male applicants declining.

Cukanna said females applying to Duquesne University have outpaced males in recent years. In 2001, women accounted for 58 percent of the 1,176 freshmen who enrolled at Duquesne, he said. Last year, 61 percent of the university's 1,326 new freshmen were women.

Women outnumber men on college campuses across the country by 58 percent to 42 percent, the U.S. Department of Education said.

At the University of Pittsburgh, female freshman applicants have outnumbered males for several years. In fall 2004, Pitt had 5,365 women applicants, compared with 4,566 men. In 2000, there were 5,571 female freshman applicants to 4,443 males.

Women earn an average of 57 percent of all bachelor of arts degrees and 58 percent of all master's degrees in the United States, according to "Achieving Gender Equality in Public Education," a report by the Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation.

As we've said before,how many women going off to college realize they might be coming to a women's college?