Being a white male, anecdotally there is more peer and cultural pressure to care about sports, cars, tv, eating tons of meat, and drinking then there is to succeed at school. And for a few decades now a major political party has been bolstering anti-science and anti college messages.

It is unsurprising less men are finishing college in the face of that culture.

While there’s going to be many causes, the aforementioned seem more important than a message of privilege.