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Women 25+ with a graduate degree (%): U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of women 25 and over with a graduate or professional degree (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment of women and men 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: 15.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 38.8 %
RI 17.8 %
DE 18.3 %
CT 21.2 %
NJ 19.4 %
MD 22.8 %
MA 24.3 %
VT 22.5 %
NH 18.9 %

Lowest: 10.8 to 12.6 %
Group 2: 12.6 to 13.9 %
Group 3: 13.9 to 15.6 %
Group 4: 15.6 to 18.3 %
Highest: 18.3 to 38.8 %

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.


1	District of Columbia	38.8
2	Massachusetts	24.3
3	Maryland	22.8
4	Vermont	22.5
5	Connecticut	21.2
6	Virginia	20.5
7	New York	20.4
8	Colorado	19.5
9	New Jersey	19.4
10	New Hampshire	18.9
11	Delaware	18.3
12	Rhode Island	17.8
13	Illinois	17.2
13	Washington	17.2
15	Maine	16.5
16	Pennsylvania	16.4
17	Georgia	16.1
17	Minnesota	16.1
19	California	15.7
19	North Carolina	15.7
21	Oregon	15.6
22	Alaska	15.4
23	Nebraska	15.2
24	New Mexico	15.1
25	Hawaii	15
26	Wyoming	14.7
27	Florida	14.6
27	Missouri	14.6
29	Kansas	14.5
30	Michigan	14.4
31	South Carolina	13.9
31	Wisconsin	13.9
33	Ohio	13.8
34	Arizona	13.7
34	Montana	13.7
36	Kentucky	13.6
36	Texas	13.6
38	Alabama	13.2
38	Tennessee	13.2
40	Utah	12.7
41	Arkansas	12.6
42	South Dakota	12.1
43	Indiana	11.9
43	Iowa	11.9
43	Louisiana	11.9
43	Mississippi	11.9
47	Idaho	11.7
48	Oklahoma	11.2
49	West Virginia	11.1
50	Nevada	10.8
50	North Dakota	10.8

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 share of women 25 and over with a graduate or professional degree (%) (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-share-of-women-25-and-over-with-a-graduate-or-professional-degree/

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