College degrees by state.
Middle share of adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher across each state's cities. US Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024.
Bachelor's or higherunder 28%28%–31%31%–34%34%–39%39%+
Every state, ranked
Bachelor's or higher, highest first. Each value is the middle across the cities we list in that state, so states with few cities rest on few numbers.
- 1District of Columbia64%1 city
- 2Vermont56%4 cities
- 3Virginia52%129 cities
- 4Colorado47%70 cities
- 5Massachusetts45%89 cities
- 6New Jersey44%157 cities
- 7Maryland43%138 cities
- 8New Hampshire42%15 cities
- 9Utah39%66 cities
- 10North Carolina39%96 cities
- 11New York39%202 cities
- 12Minnesota38%101 cities
- 13Montana37%8 cities
- 14South Dakota37%13 cities
- 15Wisconsin36%96 cities
- 16Illinois36%224 cities
- 17South Carolina35%62 cities
- 18Maine35%13 cities
- 19Washington35%131 cities
- 20Connecticut34%35 cities
- 21Rhode Island34%11 cities
- 22Florida33%342 cities
- 23Iowa33%42 cities
- 24Delaware33%11 cities
- 25West Virginia33%16 cities
- 26Hawaii32%34 cities
- 27California32%502 cities
- 28North Dakota32%9 cities
- 29Missouri31%87 cities
- 30Georgia31%113 cities
- 31Kansas31%35 cities
- 32Michigan31%101 cities
- 33Tennessee30%65 cities
- 34Alabama30%70 cities
- 35Pennsylvania30%87 cities
- 36Oregon30%68 cities
- 37Ohio29%186 cities
- 38Wyoming29%11 cities
- 39Idaho29%25 cities
- 40Texas28%267 cities
- 41Louisiana28%57 cities
- 42Arizona27%68 cities
- 43Mississippi27%41 cities
- 44Kentucky27%45 cities
- 45Nebraska26%17 cities
- 46Alaska26%7 cities
- 47Indiana26%85 cities
- 48Arkansas26%39 cities
- 49Oklahoma25%45 cities
- 50Nevada24%24 cities
- 51New Mexico24%23 cities