Women, Black students continued to be severely underrepresented among Florida SUS B.S. grads in math-intensive STEM fields in 2021-22

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Paul Cottle

Florida’s State University System is not making any significant progress in addressing the underrepresentation of women and Black students among bachelor’s degree graduates in math-intensive STEM fields, according to statistics for the 2021-22 academic year recently released by IPEDS.

The plots shown below compare the percentages of B.S. graduates in computing, engineering, math/statistics and physics who are women, Black and Hispanic to their shares of the Florida public K-12 population in 2022-23 (from the Florida Department of Education).

This is not just a Florida problem. The underrepresentation of women and Black students in Florida reflects the national situation. However, Hispanic students are doing better in math-intensive fields in Florida than they are nationally.

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