Around 30% of Americans over 25 have a college degree, but over half have some college education. The number of American adults with a college degree has increased fourfold since the 1950s, with more having a bachelor’s degree. Asian Americans are more likely to have a bachelor’s degree than any other ethnicity, and women earn more degrees than men, except for doctorates. Less than 60% of students who enter a four-year college earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.
Only about 30 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree, even though more than half have at least some college education. The percentage of American adults holding a college degree is the highest it has ever been, having increased more than fourfold since the 1950s. More Americans also have bachelor’s degrees than any other type of degree. About 7.5% of Americans have a master’s degree and only about 85% have a doctorate. More than 100% of American adults graduated from high school.
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Asian Americans are more likely than Americans of any other ethnicity to have a bachelor’s degree, with about half of Asian Americans holding a bachelor’s degree, compared with about 30 percent of non-Hispanic whites, about 17% of non-Hispanic blacks and about 11% of Hispanics or Latino.
Women earned more of every type of degree except doctoral degrees than men, with about 60 percent of associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees going to women and about 48 percent of doctoral degrees going to women.
Fewer than 60 percent of American students who enter a four-year college are likely to earn a bachelor’s degree six years later.
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