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Women 25+ with a bachelor's degree: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of women 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment of women and men 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: 38.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 64.9 %
RI 40.7 %
DE 40.8 %
CT 45.4 %
NJ 45.9 %
MD 47.2 %
MA 50.6 %
VT 48.2 %
NH 43.6 %

Lowest: 26.5 to 33.7 %
Group 2: 33.7 to 36.4 %
Group 3: 36.4 to 38.7 %
Group 4: 38.7 to 43.1 %
Highest: 43.1 to 64.9 %

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	District of Columbia	64.9
2	Massachusetts	50.6
3	Colorado	48.7
4	Vermont	48.2
5	Maryland	47.2
6	New Jersey	45.9
7	Virginia	45.8
8	Connecticut	45.4
9	New Hampshire	43.6
10	New York	43.4
11	Minnesota	43.1
12	Washington	42.3
13	Hawaii	41.4
14	Maine	41.1
15	Delaware	40.8
16	Illinois	40.7
16	Rhode Island	40.7
18	California	39.8
18	North Carolina	39.8
20	Montana	38.8
21	Nebraska	38.7
22	North Dakota	38.3
22	Oregon	38.3
22	Pennsylvania	38.3
25	Utah	38
25	Wisconsin	38
27	Georgia	37.9
27	Kansas	37.9
29	Florida	37.7
30	Texas	36.8
31	Alaska	36.4
31	Wyoming	36.4
33	South Carolina	35.9
34	Missouri	35.7
35	Michigan	35.2
36	South Dakota	35.1
37	Arizona	34.7
38	Idaho	34.3
38	Iowa	34.3
40	Tennessee	34.1
41	Ohio	33.7
42	New Mexico	33.2
43	Alabama	32.2
44	Indiana	31.9
45	Arkansas	31.2
46	Louisiana	30.7
46	Nevada	30.7
48	Oklahoma	30.5
49	Kentucky	30.3
50	Mississippi	29.4
51	West Virginia	26.5

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 share of women 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher (%) (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-share-of-women-25-and-over-with-a-bachelors-degree-or-higher/

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