2000 College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates — 2001-04-13

Sixty-three percent of the high school graduating class of 2000 was enrolled in colleges or universities in the fall, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The college enrollment rate was virtually the same as a year earlier and was well below the record high of 67 percent in 1997. Information on school enrollment and the work activity of high school graduates comes from an October supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly nationwide survey of about 50,000 households that provides information on employment, unemployment, earnings, demographics, and other characteristics of the civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and over. See the Technical Note for more information on the October supplement. Among the 2.8 million high school graduates in 2000, 1.7 million (63.3 percent) were enrolled in college the following October.