The Wall Street Journal

Why Men Are Disappearing on Campus - Opinion Piece

September 21, 2021

Richard Vedder and Braden Colegrove write: Some 79% more men than women attended America’s colleges and universities when one of us (Mr. Vedder) was an undergraduate in 1959. Women now greatly outnumber men on campuses. The Journal reported recently that men now make up only about 40% of college students. From spring 2019 to spring 2021, the number of collegiate male students fell by more than 535,000, well over triple the modest 154,000 decline observed for women, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.

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