1993 College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates — 1994-05-20

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on Friday, May 16, 2014, to correct data in table 2 for men and women with less than a bachelor's degree.) Sixty-three percent of June 1993 high school graduates were attending colleges or universities in the fall of 1993, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The enrollment rate had been 62 percent in both 1991 and 1992; in 1980, about half of the most recent high school graduates had enrolled in college by the fall. This information is from the Current Population Survey, a monthly nationwide survey of about 60,000 households conducted for BLS by the Bureau of the Census. Each October, the survey includes special questions on the school enrollment and high school graduation status of youth.