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New mothers with a bachelor's degree: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of new mothers with a bachelor's degree (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Education of women who gave birth in the past year 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: 41.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 60.9 %
RI 58.4 %
DE 47.3 %
CT 59.3 %
NJ 55.1 %
MD 50.6 %
MA 56.7 %
VT 73.1 %
NH 55.6 %

Lowest: 14.6 to 34.7 %
Group 2: 34.7 to 38.3 %
Group 3: 38.3 to 42.6 %
Group 4: 42.6 to 50.6 %
Highest: 50.6 to 73.1 %

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	Vermont	73.1
2	District of Columbia	60.9
3	Connecticut	59.3
4	Rhode Island	58.4
5	Massachusetts	56.7
6	New Hampshire	55.6
7	New Jersey	55.1
8	Colorado	52.7
8	North Dakota	52.7
10	Minnesota	52.3
11	Maryland	50.6
12	Virginia	49.8
13	Illinois	48.3
14	Delaware	47.3
15	Maine	47
16	Pennsylvania	45.5
17	Wisconsin	44.6
18	New York	44.4
19	Nebraska	43.4
20	California	43
21	South Carolina	42.6
22	Michigan	42.1
23	Iowa	41
24	North Carolina	40.7
25	Utah	40.6
26	Alaska	40.5
27	Oregon	40.1
28	Florida	39.7
29	Tennessee	38.9
30	Washington	38.5
31	Kansas	38.3
32	Hawaii	38.1
33	Missouri	37.5
34	Georgia	37.2
35	Nevada	37.1
35	Ohio	37.1
37	Idaho	37
38	Kentucky	35.6
38	Montana	35.6
38	Texas	35.6
41	Indiana	34.7
42	Arizona	33.9
43	West Virginia	33.2
44	South Dakota	33.1
45	Alabama	32.5
46	Louisiana	31.1
47	Arkansas	29.2
48	Oklahoma	26.4
49	New Mexico	25.7
50	Mississippi	20.4
51	Wyoming	14.6

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B13014: Women 15 to 50 years who had a birth in the past 12 months by marital status and educational attainment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of new mothers with a bachelor's degree (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B13014: Women 15 to 50 years who had a birth in the past 12 months by marital status and educational attainment; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-14. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-new-mothers-with-a-bachelors-degree/

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