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Undergraduate college, private: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Undergraduate college, private. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Private school enrollment by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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National value: 21.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 76.9 %
RI 41.2 %
DE 20.9 %
CT 33.3 %
NJ 30.8 %
MD 19 %
MA 51 %
VT 33.8 %
NH 29.7 %

Lowest: 8.1 to 15.1 %
Group 2: 15.1 to 17.6 %
Group 3: 17.6 to 21 %
Group 4: 21 to 29.7 %
Highest: 29.7 to 76.9 %

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	76.9
2	Massachusetts	51
3	Rhode Island	41.2
4	New York	37.8
5	Pennsylvania	37.1
6	Vermont	33.8
7	Connecticut	33.3
8	Idaho	31.4
9	Maine	30.9
10	New Jersey	30.8
11	New Hampshire	29.7
12	Utah	28.5
13	Illinois	27.6
14	Ohio	24.1
15	Tennessee	23.5
16	Minnesota	23.1
17	Missouri	22.9
18	Florida	22.6
19	Iowa	21.4
19	Virginia	21.4
21	Indiana	21
22	Delaware	20.9
23	Nevada	20.5
24	Hawaii	19.4
25	Nebraska	19.3
26	Maryland	19
26	South Carolina	19
26	South Dakota	19
29	Kentucky	18
30	Arkansas	17.6
30	Wisconsin	17.6
32	Louisiana	17.5
33	Oklahoma	17
34	North Carolina	16.2
35	Georgia	16
36	Alaska	15.9
37	Washington	15.8
38	Oregon	15.7
38	Texas	15.7
40	Arizona	15.3
41	Michigan	15.1
42	California	14.7
43	West Virginia	14.6
44	North Dakota	14.5
45	Kansas	14.3
46	Mississippi	13.7
47	New Mexico	12.5
48	Alabama	12.4
49	Colorado	12.2
50	Wyoming	9.6
51	Montana	8.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1401: School Enrollment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by undergraduate college, private (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1401; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-undergraduate-college-private/

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