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Any woman going to college for an ``MRS degree'' -- in other words, to find a husband -- may be sorely disappointed these days.

A report released Tuesday by the American Council on Education says far more women are going to college than men.

That is true just about everywhere in Ohio, including Kent State University, where 60 percent of the students are female, and at the University of Akron, where 54percent are.

``The situation has reversed itself over the last 25 years,'' said Bill Kraus, associate vice president of enrollment management at UA. ``Going to college has become more of an accepted practice for women.''

While the number of men and women earning bachelor's degrees is on the rise nationwide, women are doing so at a faster clip, said Jacqueline E. King, director of the ACE Center for Policy Analysis and author of the study.

Among white students in 2003-04, the year on which the study was based, the male population dropped to 46 percent, down from 49 percent in 1995-96; among Hispanic students, the male population dropped to 43 percent from 45 percent during the same time span.

Those gaps are due largely to enrollments of larger numbers of low-income white females and low- and middle-income Hispanic women, the report shows.

African-Americans still tend to have the largest gender gap, even though male college attendance rose from 37 percent to 40 percent.