Graduate Education

Among postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking international students, 79.5 percent attended private nonprofit four-year institutions. Their public four-year institution enrollment rate was just 18.7 percent—the lowest overall. Hispanic or Latino (61.3 percent), White (61.1 percent), and Black or African American (54.0 percent) postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students had the highest shares enrolled at public four-year institutions. The enrollment rate for Black or African American postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students at for-profit institutions was 18.9 percent, which was almost double the rate for all racial and ethnic groups combined. 

Master’s institutions enrolled over one-third (36.2 percent) of postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students, compared with just 3.0 percent of subbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students. R1 doctoral and other doctoral institutions accounted for 20.0 percent and 29.3 percent of postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students, respectively. Over one-third (38.3 percent) of international postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students were enrolled at R1 doctoral institutions. A large share of Black or African American postbaccalaureate certificate–seeking students (43.5 percent) enrolled at other doctoral institutions.