TPR surveyed local college students to find out what their college experience is like, what’s helped them stay enrolled, and the biggest challenges they’ve had to overcome to earn their degree.
Through a fellowship with the Education Writers Association, TPR hired the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University-College Station to administer the survey and collect the results anonymously. The online survey was sent to students enrolled in one of the city’s public institutions of higher education within the last two years.
Each story will explore what San Antonio’s Black and Latino college students say are the best ways to help them earn their degrees.
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In a survey Texas Public Radio sent to students currently or recently enrolled in one of San Antonio’s public institutions of higher education, Hispanic students were just as likely as white students to take out loans. But the reasons they didn’t take out loans varied depending on their race and ethnicity.
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Según los datos del censo de los EE.UU., solo el 17% de los hispanos en el área metropolitana de San Antonio tienen una licenciatura, muy por debajo del promedio de la tasa de obtención de títulos para la población blanca y asiática de San Antonio. Los miembros de la población afro-americana de San Antonio se encuentran justo en medio, pero también es menos probable que logren un título universitario.
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According to U.S. Census data, just 17% of Hispanics in the San Antonio Metropolitan Area have a bachelor’s degree, well under half the rate of degree attainment for San Antonio’s white and Asian population. San Antonio’s Black population falls in between, but is also less likely to have a college degree.