2016 College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates — 2017-04-27

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on Friday, November 17, 2017, to correct an error in the text. The number of 16- to 24-year-olds in the nation was incorrectly stated to be 22.1 million; the text was corrected to state that this was the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who were enrolled in high school or college.) In October 2016, 69.7 percent of 2016 high school graduates were enrolled in colleges or universities, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Recent high school graduates not enrolled in college in October 2016 were about twice as likely as enrolled graduates to be working or looking for work (72.3 percent, compared with 38.4 percent). Information on school enrollment and work activity is collected monthly in the Current Population Survey (CPS), a nationwide survey of about 60,000 households that provides information on employment and unemployment.