What are the factors that discourage African Americans from pursuing graduate degrees? What impact will it have on the future?

There are a multitude of factors contributing to African Americans not pursuing business graduate degrees. The career benefits of pursuing a graduate degree are sometimes concealed behind the financial burden of graduate school for some African Americans. The rise in cost of advance degrees is a hindrance and to go into debt for a graduate degree that comes with no guarantee to ascertain a position to balance out the financial investment counts as a big …

…business world start for African Americans. The business world will not be equal until African Americans can compete on the same level as their white counter parts in corporate America. The CEO and CFO positions in the top companies will not be open to African Americans if we do not prepare ourselves for these positions with advance business degrees. Our position in the business world will continue to hit the glass ceiling and stay stagnated.