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Share of bachelor's degrees in business: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of bachelor's degrees in business (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Field of bachelor's degree by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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National value: 20.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 11.8 %
RI 17.3 %
DE 20.7 %
CT 20.1 %
NJ 21.8 %
MD 17.1 %
MA 18.1 %
VT 10 %
NH 18.4 %

Lowest: 10 to 17.6 %
Group 2: 17.6 to 19.1 %
Group 3: 19.1 to 20.5 %
Group 4: 20.5 to 22.1 %
Highest: 22.1 to 24.4 %

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.


1	Florida	24.4
2	Georgia	23.5
3	Nevada	22.9
4	Alabama	22.8
4	Texas	22.8
6	Oklahoma	22.5
6	South Carolina	22.5
8	Tennessee	22.4
9	Mississippi	22.2
10	Iowa	22.1
10	Nebraska	22.1
12	New Jersey	21.8
13	Missouri	21.6
14	Kansas	21.2
15	Michigan	21.1
16	Arizona	21
17	Illinois	20.9
18	Delaware	20.7
18	Hawaii	20.7
20	Arkansas	20.6
21	Kentucky	20.5
21	Ohio	20.5
23	Utah	20.3
24	Connecticut	20.1
25	Indiana	20
26	North Carolina	19.9
27	Wisconsin	19.8
28	Minnesota	19.7
29	Colorado	19.2
29	Pennsylvania	19.2
31	Louisiana	19.1
31	North Dakota	19.1
33	New York	18.6
34	Idaho	18.5
35	New Hampshire	18.4
35	South Dakota	18.4
37	West Virginia	18.3
38	Massachusetts	18.1
39	California	17.8
40	Virginia	17.7
41	Montana	17.6
42	Rhode Island	17.3
43	Maryland	17.1
44	New Mexico	15.8
45	Maine	15.4
45	Wyoming	15.4
47	Washington	15.1
48	Oregon	13.8
49	Alaska	13.3
50	District of Columbia	11.8
51	Vermont	10

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1502: Field of Bachelor's Degree for First Major. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of bachelor's degrees in business (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1502; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-business/

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