Women and Bachelor's Degrees

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 33 percent of young women aged 25 to 29 had a bachelor’s degree or more education in 2007, compared with 26 percent of their male counterparts. A report called the Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007 showed that among adults 25 and older, men remain slightly more likely than women to hold a bachelor’s degree (30 percent compared with 28 percent). As the percentage for women rose between 2006 and 2007 (from 27 percent), for men, it remained statistically unchanged.

These tables also showed that more education continues to pay off in a big way in that adults with advanced degrees typically earn four times more than those with less than a high school diploma. Also noted is that workers 18 plus who have either master’s, professional or doctoral degrees earned an average of $82,320 in 2006, while those with less than a high school diploma earned $20,873.

The report also shows that in 2007, 86 percent of all adults 25 and older reported they had completed at least high school and 29 percent at least a bachelor's degree.

More than half of Asians 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or more (52 percent), compared with 32 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 19 percent of blacks and 13 percent of Hispanics.
The proportion of the foreign-born population with a bachelor’s degree or more was 28 percent, compared with 29 percent of the native population. However, the proportion of naturalized citizens with a college degree was 34 percent.

Workers 18 and older with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $56,788 in 2006, while those with a high school diploma earned $31,071.

Among those whose highest level of education was a high school diploma or equivalent, non-Hispanic white workers had the highest average earnings ($32,931), followed by Asians ($29,426) and blacks ($26,268). Average earnings of Hispanic workers in the same group ($27,508) were not statistically different from those of Asian or black workers.

Among workers with advanced degrees, Asians ($88,408) and non-Hispanic whites ($83,785) had higher average earnings than Hispanics ($70,432) and blacks ($64,834).

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SOURCE: Data is from the 2007 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which is conducted in February, March and April at about 100,000 addresses nationwide.