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Bachelor's degree rate, Black adults: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Bachelor's degree rate, Black adults (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment by race and Hispanic origin 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: 27.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 31.8 %
RI 32.4 %
DE 26.8 %
CT 27.5 %
NJ 30.2 %
MD 36.2 %
MA 35.3 %
VT 14.7 %
NH 32.1 %

Lowest: 14.7 to 22.3 %
Group 2: 22.3 to 24.8 %
Group 3: 24.8 to 29.3 %
Group 4: 29.3 to 31.8 %
Highest: 31.8 to 39.1 %

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.

Note: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	Hawaii	39.1
2	Maryland	36.2
3	Massachusetts	35.3
4	Colorado	35.1
5	Montana	34
6	Maine	33.8
7	Idaho	33.4
8	Rhode Island	32.4
9	Arizona	32.2
10	New Hampshire	32.1
11	District of Columbia	31.8
12	Washington	31.5
13	California	31.4
14	Virginia	31
15	Texas	30.9
16	New Jersey	30.2
17	Wyoming	30.1
18	New Mexico	29.7
19	Georgia	29.6
20	New York	29.4
21	Oregon	29.3
22	North Carolina	27.6
23	Connecticut	27.5
24	Kansas	27.2
25	Minnesota	26.9
26	Delaware	26.8
27	Iowa	26.7
28	North Dakota	26.3
29	Illinois	26.2
30	Florida	25.6
31	Alaska	24.8
32	Nebraska	24.7
32	Pennsylvania	24.7
34	Tennessee	24.6
35	Indiana	24.4
36	South Dakota	23.6
37	Utah	23.5
38	Missouri	23
39	South Carolina	22.8
40	Alabama	22.5
41	Oklahoma	22.3
42	Arkansas	22.1
43	West Virginia	21.8
44	Ohio	21.7
45	Michigan	21.1
46	Kentucky	20.9
47	Wisconsin	20.7
48	Louisiana	20.3
49	Mississippi	20
50	Nevada	18.1
51	Vermont	14.7

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 bachelor's degree rate, Black adults (%) (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-bachelors-degree-rate-black-adults/

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