<p>According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in an analysis performed by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, African immigrants here were more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group. Not only that, but African immigrants are also more highly educated than any other native-born ethnic group including white Americans. (Gasp) The 48.9% of all African immigrants that have earned a college degree is slightly higher than the percentage of degreed Asian immigrants, twice the rate of native-born whites, and four times the rate of native-born African Americans.</p>
<p>Of the African-born population in the United States age 25 and older, 86.4% reported having a high school diploma or higher, compared with 78. 9% of Asian-born immigrants, and 76.5% of European-born immigrants, respectively. These figures contrast with 61.8% percent of the total foreign-born population. Immigrant groups in general tend to have higher high school graduation rates than the native-born general American population which averages about 70%.</p>
<p>I am not surprised by this at all.African culture emphasises work ethic more than anything.And education is taken extremely seriously.People in Africa will pretty much sacrifice anything in order to go to school,so it is pretty much this desire for education that manifests itself in the college years.</p>
<p>I think this mostly points to the abilities (or lack thereof) of Africans to leave their home countries due to their families’ great impoverishment and lousy conditions. The ones that are able to make it to America are few and far between, and are often a lot more well off than the average immigrant, which helps their case… There are less than a million African immigrants currently in the US; compared to the sample size of other foreign born immigrants, this amount is miniscule, which also might skew the sample data a bit. The others (Africans who have come more on a refugee basis) have a spectacular work ethic and ability to endure that obviously has benefited them in terms of educational attainment. All the same, I’m not intending to diminish the amazingness of your statistics.</p>