Rasmussen College graduation ceremony skews feminine

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About 50 graduates of Rasmussen College participated in the Wausau campus's commencement ceremony Saturday morning, and the most striking feature of the event was its chromosomal makeup. Scarcely a Y was in the bunch; just a handful of men participated, mirroring a local and national trend.
The private, for-profit educational institution's graduation ceremony was held in the theater of the UW Center for Civic Engagement.
It was the seventh commencement offered through Wausau's Rasmussen campus, which opened in January of 2010.
Several factors could explain why the male-female ratio of graduates was so strikingly lopsided, said Sue Williams, the campus director.
The flexibility of the Rasmussen curriculum, with plenty of online classes, appeals to those who are both parenting and working.
More than half of the graduates earned various degrees from the medical field, such as nursing, Williams said.
Nearly 75 percent of all students on the campus are women, she said.And it's also in line with a national trend.
"The male-female ratio in higher education has been steadily (moving) in favor of the females ever since the 1970s," wrote Daniel Borzelleca in a 2012 blog post for Forbes magazine.
The national male-to-female ratio for public universities in 2008 was 43.6 percent to 56.4 percent. But private schools have a 40.7 to 59.3 ratio.

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