African immigrants who arrive to the United States to bolster their education are the top academic achievers among non-natives. In an older study conducted using U.S. Census data, it was reported that 48.9 percent of African immigrants hold a college diploma.
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education in 2001 and the Harvard Educational Review both studied past Census data in a study to determine where African immigrants fall on the educational spectrum in the States. And in recent times, the resurgence of those findings continue to champion Africans scholarly leaps. African immigrants obtain a diploma at a rate twice higher than U.S.-born White Americans and four times that when compared to African Americans.
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A report on African Immigrants and Educational Attainment reveals the numbers in clear fashion:
African immigrants to the U.S. are among the most educated groups in the United States. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans. According to the 2000 Census, the rate of college diploma acquisition is highest among Egyptian Americans at 59.7 percent, followed closely by Nigerian Americans at 58.6 percent.
In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult white Americans and 3.8 percent of adult black Americans in the United States, respectively. According to the 2000 Census, the percentage of Africans with a graduate degree is highest among Nigerian Americans at 28.3 percent, followed by Egyptian Americans at 23.8 percent.
Of the African-born population in the United States age 25 and older, 87.9 percent reported having a high school degree or higher, compared with 78.8 percent of Asian-born immigrants and 76.8 percent of European-born immigrants, respectively.[Africans from Kenya (90.8 percent), Nigeria (89.1 percent), Ghana (85.9 percent), Botswana (84.7 percent), and Malawi (83 percent) were the most likely to report having a high school degree or higher.
Those born in Cape Verde (44.8 percent) and Mauritania (60.8 percent) were the least likely to report having completed a high school education.
The only caveat to these numbers is that they will have to be adjusted for the past 14 years; in addition, there has not been an educational analysis done of the 2010 Census findings as of this writing.
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Oyiwaa!
Well done. Keep on shining brothers and sisters.
This is very interesting and up lifting for our black nations of the world, and the black race.It also shows that the Africans are focus , their desire is to achieve and make them self worthwhile and to be called an achiever. Their aim is to be qualified to filled any vacancies and to be at the top of the ladder and make their family proud.
The blacks are normally label as bad, and evil.but today they are hailed as doing good educationally which is a great achievement.and worthy of praise to God be the glory! Walk good my brothers and sisters and show them we can do it.
African Immigrants can't afford to wait around for African Americans to decide to open up a book....GRADE A Africa!
Proof that AFRICANS have Higher Academic achievements than ASIAN and EUROPEAN immigrants.Unfortunately," White America" understands the potential of a Black person's mind. That's why they have Institutions in place that purposely keep Black Americans ignorant.
It is encouraging, see there if God allows.
Let them come back home an build their motherland
The African immigrants I've gone to school with and worked with are some of the hardest working, motivated and inspirational people I've had the privilege of meeting.