Report Showing Key Findings on Wages, Occupations, Locations of Black Immigrant College Graduates

The Immigration Research Initiative and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Administration issued a joint report entitled “Black Immigrant College Graduates: Where they live and where they work.” Based on analysis of the 2022 American Community Survey 5-year data, the report focuses on individuals who identified as Black and said they had at least a bachelor’s degree. Immigrants were defined as anyone living in the US and born in another country, except if their parents were US citizens when they were born. Three types of Black immigrants were distinguished: childhood arrivals; international students; and foreign educated. Key findings included:

• Nearly 1 in every 5 Black college graduates are first-generation immigrants.

• Of the 5.3 million Black college graduates in the US, 18% are immigrants and

  82% are US born.

• There are 976,000 Black immigrant college graduates working in the US as of 2022

• The most common jobs for Black immigrants with college degrees are in healthcare, education, and business.

• Immigrants account for almost one-fifth of all Black college graduates in the labor force.

• Nearly 74% of all Black immigrant college graduates live in ten states: NY, FL, TX, MD, GA, CA, NJ, MA, VA, and PA.

Details of the report can be found at: Black Immigrant College Graduates: Where they live and where they work - Presidents' Alliance