I heard a statistic taken from 1998 also that mentioned that only
3% of Americans have their Ph.D.
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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Sue Frantz wrote:
> Jean Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> > Does anyone know what percentage of the US population has a four year degree? What
>percentage have a master's degree of above? Thanks in advance!
>
> This info can be found at http://www.census.gov/, click on "E" for
> "educational attainment".
>
> The following totals are from March 1998 and are for folks in the US 15
> years old and over (209,291,000) rounded to the nearest thousand:
>
> Bachelors degree: 30,090,000
> Masters degree: 9,295,000
> Professional degree: 2,586,000
> Doctorate degree: 1,869,000
>
> I'll let you calculate the percentages. =)
>
> (Btw, there are more people in the US with doctorates than there are
> people in New Mexico.)
>
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