New figures released by the Census Bureau Thursday show undergraduate and graduate enrollment at colleges and universities dropped 1.2 million—or 6 percent—from 2010 to 2015. The drop accompanies an overall decrease in school enrollment at all levels from 78.6 million to 77.1 million during the same time period.

Broken down by race, the percentage of Asian and Hispanic high school graduates enrolled in college is about the same in 2015 as in 2010, while enrollment among whites has fallen slightly. The most significant decrease in college enrollment from 2010 to 2015 was among black students, although 2015 rebounded somewhat from 2014 to 2015, as this Census Bureau graph illustrates:

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