college education - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png college education - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 Only A Quarter of Americans Have B.A. Degrees…How Do Your Neighbors Stack Up? https://greatcollegeadvice.com/about-a-quarter-of-americans-have-b-a-degrees-how-do-your-neighbors-stack-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=about-a-quarter-of-americans-have-b-a-degrees-how-do-your-neighbors-stack-up Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:47:51 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=6895 Look at the percentage of people in the US who have bachelors degrees, county by county. Are you surprised?

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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

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