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Only A Quarter of Americans Have B.A. Degrees…How Do Your Neighbors Stack Up?

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Every time I tell people in a presentation that only about a quarter of Americans have a college degree, I hear gasps of surprise.
But it’s true. Only 27.5% of Americans today have a Bachelor’s degree. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a fun interactive map on its website where you can see by county the exact percentage of people with college diplomas.
Check it out. How educated are your neighbors, generally speaking?
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant

Mark Montgomery

Mark Montgomery

Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.

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Mark Montgomery

Mark Montgomery

Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.

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