Females are heading off to college more than males.

Forbes reports.

The Disappearing College Male

The “college for all” crowd laments that too few Americans are getting university diplomas. They also lament that some qualified minority and first generation college students are “under-matched”—they do not go to the best schools available for them. But little attention is given to the quantitatively vastly more important reason why the proportion of Americans with degrees is not growing faster: the substantial underrepresentation of men on college campuses. For every four women graduating from four year colleges, there are only three men. If males graduated from college in the same proportion as women, there would be about 14 percent more college graduates each year –over two million more over a decade. An under-discussed issue is: why aren’t men going and graduating from college as much as women?

Before getting into that, I want to make it crystal clear that I do not subscribe to the view that increasing college attendance and graduation would be a positive development –indeed, I think too many people graduate from college, and that, at the margin, the return on college training is now pretty low for a lot of prospective college students in America. If anything, the problem is closer to “too many women graduate from college” rather than “too few men get college degrees.”