How many black people have graduate degrees?

But at the graduate degree level, only 7.8 percent of Black adults have earned a degree compared with 13.4 percent of White adults — a gap of 5.6 percentage points. The discrepancy is largest at the bachelor's degree level, where the gap is nearly 10 percentage points.

What is the percentage of black graduates?

CENSUS OVERVIEW

According to the Census' American Community Survey, in 2021 12% of the total U.S. population identified as Black or African American. Among Black residents aged 25 or over, 22.6% had earned a bachelor's degree or higher. This rate is up from 17.9% in 2010, but falls short of the national rate of 32.9%.

What percent of black men have a degree?

If we break the data down by gender, we find that 24.9 percent of African American men and 30.8 percent of African American women over the age of 25 had obtained at least a bachelor's degree. Some 1,591,000 Black women had earned a master's degree but no higher degree.

Which race is the most educated?

Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment of any race, followed by whites who had a higher percentage of high school graduates but a lower percentage of college graduates. Persons identifying as Hispanic or Latino, without regard to race, had the lowest educational attainment.

What degree do most black people get?

Law and public policy is the top major group for African Americans with a Bachelor's degree. The highest concentrated detailed major among African Americans is in health and medical administration.

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What race has the lowest education rate?

Black students had the lowest graduation rates, with less than three-quarters of students starting high school in 2010 and graduating by 2014.

What race is more rich?

White households also had significantly more wealth than Hispanic households (5.1 times) and multiracial households (3.0 times) in 2021. But the median wealth of White households was about 20% less than that of Asian households.

Which race has the most jobs?

In 2022, about 62.7 percent of the Asian community was employed. The highest employment rate was found among Mexican-Americans, at 63.6 percent, and the lowest employment rate was found among Puerto Ricans, at 55.3 percent.

What race has the highest life?

It was highest for Asian people at 83.5 years and lowest for AIAN people who had a life expectancy of 65.2 years. Life expectancies were even lower for Black and AIAN males, at 66.7 and 61.5 years, respectively.

How many black people get Phds?

Doctoral Degrees for African Americans Hold Steady Despite the Pandemic. Universities in the United States conferred 55,283 doctorates in 2020, down just slightly from 2019. Of these, 3,095 were earned by Black students, up slightly from the previous year.

What percentage of blacks go to university?

In October 2021, there were 2,717.000 African Americans enrolled in higher education. They made up 15.7 percent of all enrollments in higher education. Black women made up 65 percent of all African American enrollments in higher education.

What percent of black people don t graduate?

Only 40% of Black students graduate from four-year universities and colleges within even six years, compared with 64% of white students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics; the rest are still struggling through or have dropped out, most of them with debt but no degree.

How many black people graduate from Harvard?

At Harvard, it's 98% for undergraduates overall and 99% for Black collegians. It's also 99% for Black students at Princeton, compared to 97% of bachelor's degree seekers there overall.

How many black men have graduate degrees?

Some 669,000 black women hold a master's degree compared to 409,000 black men. Thus, black women hold 62 percent of all African-American master's degrees, an even larger share of their total in bachelor's degree attainments. Black men continue to have a lead over black women in their numbers of professional degrees.

What race works the least?

​ Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey (CPS). Among adult men (20 years and older) in the largest race and ethnicity groups, Blacks were the most likely to be jobless (with an unemployment rate of 8.9 percent), while Whites (4.6 percent) and Asians (4.8 percent) were the least likely.

What's the most unemployed race?

In 2022, 6.1 percent of the Black or African-American population in the United States were unemployed, the highest unemployment rate of any ethnicity.

What ethnicity is the poorest in the US?

41% Native American or American Indian. 32% Asian. 38% Black or African American.

Are there more Black millionaires than white?

White Americans hold ten times more total wealth than Black Americans. They are 28 times more likely to become millionaires.

What race is most likely to drop out of school?

In 2021, the high school drop out rate for American Indian/Alaska Natives in the United States was 8.2 percent -- the highest rate of any ethnicity. In comparison, the high school drop out rate for Asians was 1.6 percent.

What is the most educated black country in the world?

What race is less likely to graduate high school?

White and Asian students are more likely to graduate high school on time than Black and Hispanic students. But there is a big difference in the gender gap by race.