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Graduate students' share of people enrolled: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Graduate students' share of people enrolled (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in School enrollment by level by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-14

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National value: 6.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 12.3 %
RI 6.4 %
DE 8.8 %
CT 7.5 %
NJ 7.3 %
MD 8 %
MA 9.5 %
VT 5.9 %
NH 5.7 %

Lowest: 3.8 to 5.2 %
Group 2: 5.2 to 5.7 %
Group 3: 5.7 to 6.1 %
Group 4: 6.1 to 7 %
Highest: 7 to 12.3 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	12.3
2	Massachusetts	9.5
3	Delaware	8.8
4	Maryland	8
5	New York	7.7
6	Connecticut	7.5
7	Illinois	7.3
7	New Jersey	7.3
9	Colorado	7
9	Pennsylvania	7
9	Virginia	7
12	Wyoming	6.9
13	California	6.6
14	Florida	6.5
14	North Dakota	6.5
16	Rhode Island	6.4
17	Hawaii	6.3
18	Alabama	6.2
19	Georgia	6.1
19	Nevada	6.1
19	Washington	6.1
22	New Mexico	6
23	Michigan	5.9
23	Missouri	5.9
23	North Carolina	5.9
23	Vermont	5.9
27	Arizona	5.7
27	Kansas	5.7
27	Nebraska	5.7
27	New Hampshire	5.7
27	South Carolina	5.7
27	Texas	5.7
33	Maine	5.5
33	Oregon	5.5
33	Tennessee	5.5
36	West Virginia	5.4
37	Mississippi	5.3
37	Wisconsin	5.3
39	Montana	5.2
39	Ohio	5.2
39	Utah	5.2
42	Indiana	5.1
43	Kentucky	5
44	Arkansas	4.8
44	Iowa	4.8
44	Minnesota	4.8
47	Louisiana	4.7
47	Oklahoma	4.7
49	Alaska	4.6
50	South Dakota	4.3
51	Idaho	3.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B14001: School enrollment by level of school for the population 3 years and over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by graduate students' share of people enrolled (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B14001: School enrollment by level of school for the population 3 years and over; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-14. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-graduate-students-share-of-people-enrolled/

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