From InsideHigherEd:
The number of Ph.D. recipients rose by 1.9 percent in 2015, to 55,006 from 54,003 in 2014 — the smallest increase since 2011. Nearly 64 percent of them were U.S. citizens or permanent residents, up by about one percentage point from 2014. But the proportion of doctorate recipients who are American remains well below the level it was 15 or more years ago, when the foreign born were a quarter or less of Ph.D. recipients.
The percentage of doctorate recipients who are Hispanic increased by 8.67 percent in 2015, larger than the increase for Asian (6.6 percent), black (4.8 percent) or white Americans (2.5 percent). The proportion of new Ph.D. holders who are men continued to edge up slightly, as it has for much of this decade, to 53.8 percent.
The breakout by race and ethnicity is here, gender and other breakouts here.
… The proportion of all Ph.D. recipients who graduated with no debt increased by 5 percent, while the share who completed their degrees with $10,000 or less in debt grew by 8.2 percent and the proportion who finished with at least $30,000 in debt rose by 0.26 percent.
35K Americans got PhDs last year. 5.6% of them identified as Black. That’s almost 2000 Black PhD’s.
The NFL drafts about 250 college players each year. About 2/3 are Black. Lets call it 160, many of whom will end up with CTE after a 5-10 year career of concussions.
And yet the NCAA and university presidents still push college athletics as a way of promoting racial equality.
I think you’re underestimating the negative effects of graduate education on the brain, but otherwise – right on.