{"id":15394,"date":"2013-08-29T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/d-c-virginia-and-maryland-have-the-highest-shares-of-college-educated-latinos\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:29:57","slug":"d-c-virginia-and-maryland-have-the-highest-shares-of-college-educated-latinos","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/08\/29\/d-c-virginia-and-maryland-have-the-highest-shares-of-college-educated-latinos\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C., Virginia and Maryland have the highest shares of college-educated Latinos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the number of Latinos attending college has surged<\/a> in recent years, a new analysis of Census data finds wide variances by state in the share of Latino adults who have a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n\n

Overall, the District of Columbia<\/a> has the highest college degree attainment rate among Hispanic adults, with 36.2% of those ages 25 and older holding a bachelor\u2019s degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s 2011 American Community Survey. Following D.C. are the neighboring states of Virginia<\/a> and Maryland<\/a>, with college degree-attainment rates of 24.1% and 21.2%, respectively, among their Hispanic adult populations.<\/p>\n\n

These three states contain the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, where nearly half (48.3%) of the adult population has a college degree. That is the highest share among large metro areas and reflects the presence of employers like the federal government.<\/p>\n\n

In Florida<\/a>, one-in-five (20.4%) Hispanic adults have a college degree. Florida has the third-largest Hispanic population in the country (8.4%) and one of the most diverse, with immigrants from Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela and a growing Puerto Rican population.<\/p>\n\n

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Among the states that have the largest Hispanic populations\u2014California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois, respectively\u2014only Florida and New York have college degree-attainment rates above the national Hispanic average. In California<\/a>, which alone has 27.7% of the nation\u2019s Latino population, only one-in-ten (10.7%) Latino adults have a college degree. The Latino adult college degree-attainment rate for Texas<\/a>, with the nation\u2019s second largest Latino population, is just 12.0%. In New York<\/a>, the fourth biggest Latino state by population, 15.9% of Latino adults have a bachelor\u2019s degree. And in Illinois<\/a>, the college degree-attainment rate is 12.2%.<\/p>\n\n

The five states with the lowest Hispanic college degree attainment rates are Nebraska<\/a> at 9.4%, Idaho<\/a> at 9.1%, Mississippi<\/a> at 8.6%, Arkansas<\/a> at 8.5% and Nevada<\/a> at 8.1%.<\/p>\n\n

In Puerto Rico, home to nearly four million Latinos, 23.3% of adults ages 25 and older have a college degree. Compared with the 50 states and DC, this college degree attainment rate places Puerto Rico ahead of every state except Virginia and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n\n

The share of Latino high school graduates that immediately enroll in college<\/a> is on the rise, as is the number of Hispanic students earning college degrees<\/a>. But despite these gains, the share of Latino adults nationally that have a bachelor\u2019s degree, 13.4%, remains significantly below that of whites (31.8%), Asians (50.3%) and blacks (18.7%)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

For more on Hispanic populations, see our interactive state<\/a>, county<\/a> and metropolitan area<\/a> maps.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the number of Latinos attending college has surged in recent years, a new analysis of Census data finds wide variances by state in the share of Latino adults who have a bachelor\u2019s degree. Overall, the District of Columbia has the highest college degree attainment rate among Hispanic adults, with 36.2% of those ages 25 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