Everyone knows women are smarter than men. Anyone who says differently is, well, probably a man.

I’m only partly kidding. A new report found that young men are dropping out of higher education at an alarming rate and trailing behind female college students by record levels. According to the Wall Street Journal, female enrollment in colleges and universities had surged to an all-time high of 59.5% by the end of the 2020-21 academic year. Male enrollment, however, dropped to 40.5%. And although there were far fewer students attending colleges in general because of the pandemic, men represented 71% of those who chose not to go.