Higher Education

Explore all the research, analysis, commentary, and data on immigrants' enrollment in colleges and universities; their tertiary education attainment; and the policies affecting their access to higher education.

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Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications

Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.

Unauthorized Youths and Higher Education: The Ongoing Debate

With 65,000 unauthorized students graduating U.S. high schools each year, states and Congress face growing pressure to decide who qualifies for public higher education.

Second-Generation Latinos in Nebraska: A First Look

Nebraska's foreign-born population grew faster than any other U.S. Midwestern state in the 1990s, with Latinos making up 53.8 percent of the state’s foreign born by 2004.

Spotlight on Foreign Students and Exchange Visitors in 2005

Foreign student and exchange visitor admissions to the United States neared 1 million in 2005, up 46 percent over the decade.

New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act

MPI estimates about 1.1 million unauthorized youth could gain legal status under the DREAM Act of 2006, about 360,000 with immediate eligibility.

Educational Attainment of the Foreign Born in the United States in 2000

The 2000 U.S. census revealed sharp differences in educational attainment among U.S. immigrants, with Indians tending to be among the most highly educated.

Education May Boost Fortunes of Second-Generation Latino Immigrants

First-generation Latino teens in the United States out-earned peers in 2000, but second-generation Latinos who focus on school surpass them in earnings and attainment by adulthood.