Pulling back the veil: What determines HBCU campus enrollments?

James Koch and Omari Swinton

Social Science Quarterly, 2022, vol. 103, issue 2, 317-327

Abstract: Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are among the least researched sectors of American higher education. This article addresses a portion of this knowledge deficit by focusing on the determinants of the full‐time equivalent enrollments of 50 HBCUs between fiscal year FY 2005 and FY 2018 and then comparing them to a broad sample of 182 non‐HBCUs. The most noteworthy specific results generated by our analyses are: (1) increased recruitment of white students by HBCUs may not hold the key to HBCU enrollment success; (2) the incomes of the households from which students emanate have a major positive influence on HBCU enrollments; (3) HBCU campuses whose resource allocations pay more attention to the instruction and student services have higher enrollments; (4) intercollegiate athletic expenditures in general and the operation of an Football Championship Subdivision (FBS)‐level football program, in particular, are massively important determinants of HBCU enrollments; and (5) the predicted FY full‐time equivalent enrollment (FTE) of an HBCU is less than one‐half of what would hold true for a comparably situated non‐HBCU.

Date: 2022
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