We have created a data tool for studying geographic, school-level trends for men in higher education, from admissions to completion. This tool includes information on variables like male enrollment shares, graduation rates, as well as later salaries. All the data is open and downloadable. We hope this resource proves useful for higher education practitioners in studying their own school’s trends, as well as for the general audience in viewing school-specific patterns.
Learn more about the Higher Education Male Achievement Collaborative (HEMAC), a program of AIBM which aims to study and improve the condition and outcomes of men in higher education.
As male college enrollment has stagnated, and the female enrollment share has continued to rise, more higher education practitioners have started to pay attention to these trends.
At AIBM, we have extensively covered the state of men in higher education:
While these aggregate trends clearly indicate a number of recent male-specific patterns in higher education, national analyses can hide the school-specific characteristics across the country. In order to better demonstrate these school-specific male patterns, we provide the following data tool for studying male trends at postsecondary institutions across the country.
The data tool provided below is a visualization of postsecondary institutions across the country, and their respective characteristics on a number of relevant variables by gender.
Disclaimer: this tool is meant to be viewed on desktop.
This map includes the following characteristics by gender:
To change the variable being visualized, simply update the tab in the top right.
While visualization and coloring is dependent on male outcomes, the hover labels for each school includes information on female outcomes and the comparison between male and female outcomes. Labels also include data from past years as well.
To find a specific school, use the search bar in the top right then zoom in on the highlighted marker. Clear the search bar to return all schools.
To zoom in and out of the map, use the top right zoom icons. You can also zoom in with your mouse/touchpad.
To view the map in a separate browser tab, please use this link.
To query and download any data shown in the map, see the data table and explanation below.
Data noteData used for this tool come from the following sources:
If you’d like to work with the IPEDS data shown here without having to clean and format it yourself, the author provides the following Python package, genpeds, that requests and cleans IPEDS data from the past forty years. For further information on genpeds, please visit the PyPi page and/or the GitHub repository.
To download any of the data shown in the main data tool, please use the following data table. Tabs correspond to the shown variables in the visualization. Columns can be sorted in ascending and descending order, and schools can be queried by using the search bar with a school’s name or its location. To download results for a school or set of schools, simply query each school via the search bar, then download the results using the buttons in the top left.
AIBM is partnering with colleges and universities across the United States to deepen our understanding of the trends in male student achievement in higher education. Through the Higher Education Male Achievement Collaborative (HEMAC) we are fostering a community committed to sharing evidence-based strategies, conducting collaborative research and supporting promising innovations aimed at improving outcomes for men in higher education.
If your institution is interested in exploring male student engagement, persistence and success, we invite you to get involved by completing the contact form.
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