A new AICPA survey places the percentage of African American students graduating with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting at just 5% – a negligible increase since 1979.
In fact, the statistic actually represents a relative decrease of 1%, since the percentage of African Americans in the U.S. population has increased from 12.9 to 13.6%, according to U.S. Census data.
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