Title: Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Educational attainment in the United States
Educational attainment in the United States
Contents
General attainment of degrees/diplomas
Educational attainment in the United States (2018)
Gender
Gender gap in literacy
Graduation rates
Ethnicity and race
Immigrants
Income
Occupation
Religion
Geography
Social class and education
Educational attainment in social theory
Bourdieu and cultural capital
Lareau and concerted cultivation
Collins and credentialism
See also
General:
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment of any race, followed by whites who had a higher percentage of high school graduates but a lower percentage of college graduates. Persons identifying as Hispanic or Latino, without regard to race, had the lowest educational attainment. The gap was the largest between foreign-born Asian Americans, over half (50.1%) of whom had a bachelor's degree or higher and foreign-born Hispanics, 9.8% of whom had a four-year college degree. Hispanics and Latinos also trailed far behind in terms of graduating from high school; it was the only major group for which high school graduates constituted less than 80% of the population. This large inequality might partially be explained by the influx of uneducated foreign-born Hispanic Americans who had not been offered the chance to complete secondary education in their home country and who had not completed secondary education in the United States. Overall, nearly half (49.8%) of Asian Americans, nearly a third (30%) of non-Hispanic Whites, 17.3% of non-Hispanic Blacks, and just over a tenth (11.4%) of Hispanics or Latinos had a four-year college degree. The same differences decrease significantly at the high school level with 89.4% of non-Hispanic whites, 87.6% of Asian Americans, 80.0% of African Americans, and 57% of Hispanics or Latinos having graduated from high school. In August 2020, the US Justice Department argued that Yale University discriminated against Asian candidates on the basis of their race, a charge the university denied. The Racial achievement gap in the United States refers to these educational disparities between differing ethnic groups.