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Bachelor's degree rate of veterans: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Bachelor's degree rate of veterans (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Veterans' education, work, poverty and disability 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: 33.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 48 %
RI 37.2 %
DE 33.1 %
CT 33.1 %
NJ 33.2 %
MD 45.7 %
MA 38 %
VT 33.1 %
NH 35.9 %

Lowest: 22.4 to 27.2 %
Group 2: 27.2 to 30.9 %
Group 3: 30.9 to 33.1 %
Group 4: 33.1 to 36.1 %
Highest: 36.1 to 48 %

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: Veterans are older on average than nonveterans; small-state estimates have wide margins of error.


1	District of Columbia	48
2	Virginia	46.8
3	Maryland	45.7
4	Colorado	43.7
5	Utah	39.9
6	Hawaii	38.9
7	Massachusetts	38
8	Rhode Island	37.2
9	California	36.3
9	Washington	36.3
11	Florida	36.1
12	New Hampshire	35.9
13	South Dakota	35.8
13	Texas	35.8
15	Arizona	35.4
16	New Mexico	34.7
17	Kansas	34.2
17	South Carolina	34.2
19	Georgia	34
20	New Jersey	33.2
21	Connecticut	33.1
21	Delaware	33.1
21	Vermont	33.1
24	North Carolina	32.9
25	Alabama	32.8
26	Oregon	32.2
27	Minnesota	31.6
28	Maine	31.5
29	Montana	31.2
30	New York	31.1
31	Alaska	30.9
32	Nebraska	30.5
33	Wyoming	29.9
34	Illinois	29.7
35	Tennessee	29.6
36	Nevada	29.5
37	Idaho	29.1
37	Oklahoma	29.1
39	Missouri	28.5
40	Louisiana	27.7
41	Iowa	27.2
42	Mississippi	27
43	Pennsylvania	26.9
44	Ohio	26.4
45	Arkansas	26.2
46	Michigan	25.9
47	Wisconsin	25.8
48	Kentucky	25.7
49	Indiana	25.3
50	West Virginia	23.5
51	North Dakota	22.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2101: Veteran Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by bachelor's degree rate of veterans (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2101; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-bachelors-degree-rate-of-veterans/

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