Education -
Reference African Immigrants in the U.S
African Immigrants in general have the highest educational attainment of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completed education than the stereotyped
Asian American model minority.
[1][/suP] It is not only the first generation that performs well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the children of African immigrants.
Harvard University, for example, has estimated that two-thirds of their black population is not comprised of traditional
black Americans.
[2][/suP] This is true for other universities such as
Yale,
Princeton,
Penn,
Columbia,
Duke and
Berkeley.
[3][/suP] As a result, the benefits of
affirmative action are not efficiently serving traditional multi-generational black Americans who are descendents of American slaves.
[4][/suP] This also includes recent black immigrants from other areas of the African diaspora, like Afro-Caribbean people. A growing number of Nigerian Americans are considered to be affluent and well educated. Many possess college degrees and have graduated with advanced diplomas in engineering, law, business and medicine from top institutions like
Harvard,
Yale,
Cornell,
University of Pennsylvania,
MIT,
Stanford,
Columbia University,
UC Berkeley,
University of Virginia among others. Today most affluent Nigerians are concentrated in the field of medicine, however, many are employed in many Fortune 500 companies and/or self made entrepreneurs.