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From Random Samplings, the blog of the US Census Bureau …

According to tables from the 2011 CPS released today, more than 30 percent of adults this age reported they had a bachelor’s or higher degree. As recently as 1998, less than a quarter of people this age had this level of education. And back in 1947, the rate was only 5 percent. Yes, we’ve come a long way.
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In the last 10 years the number of Hispanics with a bachelor’s degree or more grew by 80 percent, from 2.1 million in 2001 to 3.8 million in 2011.  Over the same period, the number of blacks with a bachelor’s degree or more grew by 47 percent.  The number of Asians with this level of education increased by 28 percent, and the number of non-Hispanic whites increased 24 percent.  These last two percentages are not statistically different, so we can’t really say whether Asians or non-Hispanic whites had the higher growth.
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Eleven percent of the population, or 22 million, had an advanced degree, including 16 million with master’s and 6 million with professional or doctoral degrees. The number with advanced degrees increased 40 percent from 2001 to 2011.