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Bachelor's degree rate, White non-Hispanic adults: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Bachelor's degree rate, White non-Hispanic adults (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment by race and Hispanic origin by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 41.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 92.7 %
RI 44.6 %
DE 42.5 %
CT 49.7 %
NJ 50.7 %
MD 51.5 %
MA 52.9 %
VT 44.9 %
NH 41.4 %

Lowest: 24.2 to 34.3 %
Group 2: 34.3 to 38.4 %
Group 3: 38.4 to 41.4 %
Group 4: 41.4 to 44.9 %
Highest: 44.9 to 92.7 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	District of Columbia	92.7
2	Colorado	54.2
3	Hawaii	52.9
3	Massachusetts	52.9
5	Maryland	51.5
6	New Jersey	50.7
7	California	49.8
8	Connecticut	49.7
9	New York	48.9
10	Virginia	47.8
11	Vermont	44.9
12	Rhode Island	44.6
13	New Mexico	44.5
14	Texas	43.9
15	Illinois	43.6
16	Minnesota	42.8
17	Delaware	42.5
18	Washington	42.3
19	North Carolina	42
20	Utah	41.9
21	New Hampshire	41.4
22	Arizona	40.7
23	Alaska	40.5
24	Florida	40.3
25	Kansas	39.9
26	Georgia	39.6
27	Nebraska	39.1
28	Pennsylvania	38.7
28	South Carolina	38.7
30	Maine	38.4
30	Oregon	38.4
32	Montana	37.6
33	Wisconsin	36.9
34	North Dakota	35.9
35	Wyoming	35.8
36	South Dakota	35.3
37	Idaho	35.2
38	Michigan	35.1
39	Missouri	34.9
40	Tennessee	34.5
41	Nevada	34.3
42	Alabama	33.9
43	Iowa	33.8
44	Ohio	33.6
45	Louisiana	32.1
46	Oklahoma	31.9
47	Indiana	31.5
48	Mississippi	30.9
49	Arkansas	30.5
50	Kentucky	29.1
51	West Virginia	24.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1501: Educational Attainment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by bachelor's degree rate, White non-Hispanic adults (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1501; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-bachelors-degree-rate-white-non-hispanic-adults/

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