- More than 30% of Americans have a college degree. This is the first time in our history we have achieved this.
- As of last March, 30.4% of people over age 25 in the U.S. held at least a bachelor's degree, and 10.9% held a graduate degree, up from 26.2% and 8.7% 10 years ago.
- In 2001, men held a 3.9% lead in bachelor's degrees and 2.6% points in graduate degrees; by last year, both gaps were down to 0.7%.
- Asian-Americans remain the nation's best-educated racial group - - 50.3% having a bachelor's degree.
- Among college graduates 65 or older, only 23% of those with degrees in STEM majors are women; among 40 to 64, the proportion of women rises to 36%; among those 25 to 39, 45.9% are women.
- STEM graduates are most heavily concentrated on the East and West coasts - - with the the highest percentages in the DC area, California, Washington, and Maryland. The Southern and Plains states had the lowest.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Engineering Demographics
Statistics from a New York Times article over the weekend by Richard Perez-Pena (Milestone Is Passed as 30 Percent of U.S. Adults Report Having a College Degree) - -
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