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The department estimates that by the time the 2013-14 school year rolls around, women receiving degrees will outnumber men by more than 300,000.

Every year, the situation gets worse and worse and worse," said Tom Mortensen, a higher-education policy analyst who publishes Postsecondary Education Opportunity newsletter and has beat the drums on the issue since the 1990s.

"It's a very serious and long-standing problem, and there's no solution in sight," said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and author of "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men."

Catherine Hill, director of research at the American Association of University Women, added that "there's a lot to celebrate" in the trend, saying that not too long ago, it was rare to have women in certain fields, like medicine, while today it's routine.

But the discussion of possible causes of and solutions for the broader college gap between men and women continues. One possible cause is that since the 1980s, some older women have gone back to college to get degrees, said Ms. King. There is a degree of "pent-up demand," Ms. Hill agreed.