{"id":63268,"date":"2012-06-27T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/06\/27\/iii-educational-attainment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:11:52","slug":"iii-educational-attainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2012\/06\/27\/iii-educational-attainment\/","title":{"rendered":"III. Educational Attainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;high-school-diploma-only&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"high-school-diploma-only\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">High School Diploma Only<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<figure><img data-dominant-color=\"dae2e0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dae2e0;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14672 not-transparent\" title=\"2012-phc-summary-05\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/06\/2012-phc-summary-05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"392\"><\/figure>\n<p>About one-quarter (26%) of Hispanics ages 25 and older have only a high school diploma. This compares with 28% of the total U.S. population.<\/p><\/li>\n<li>Puerto Ricans (30%), Cubans (29%), Colombians (27%) and Peruvians (27%) all have slightly higher shares with only a high school diploma compared with the total U.S. Hispanic population.<\/li>\n<li>Guatemalans (22%) and Salvadorans (24%) have lower-than-average shares of adults ages 25 and older who have only a high school diploma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;bachelors-degree-or-more&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"bachelors-degree-or-more\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bachelor\u2019s Degree or More<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14673\" title=\"2012-phc-summary-06\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/06\/2012-phc-summary-06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"396\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some 13% of U.S. Hispanics ages 25 and older have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree, compared with 28% of the total U.S. population of the same age.<\/p><\/li>\n<li>The shares of Colombians (32%) and Peruvians (30%) who have a college degree or more are higher than the share of the total U.S. population with at<strong> <\/strong>least a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/li>\n<li>Salvadorans (7%), Guatemalans (8%) and Mexicans (9%) have the lowest rates of college completion; fewer than one-in-ten adults ages 25 and older in these Hispanic groups have a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School Diploma Only About one-quarter (26%) of Hispanics ages 25 and older have only a high school diploma. 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