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More doctoral degrees have been conferred on women every year since. [2] [141] As of 2011, among adults 25 and older, 10.6 million U.S. women have master's degrees or higher, compared to 10.5 million men. Measured by shares, about 10.2 percent of women have advanced degrees compared to 10.9 percent of men—a gap steadily narrowing in recent years.
In addition, fewer males held master's degrees: 6,472,000 males compared to 7,283,000 females. However, more men held professional and doctoral degrees than women. 2,033,000 males held professional degrees compared to 1,079,000, and 1,678,000 males had received a doctoral degree compared to 817,000 females. [16]
For example, in the United States in 2020/2021, women earned 63% of associate degrees, 58% of bachelor's degrees, 62% of master's degrees, and 56% of doctorates. [ 6 ] Improving girls' educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their ...
Originally the second of three degrees in sequence – Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B., last conferred by an American law school in 1970); LL.M.; and Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or Doctor of Laws, which has only been conferred in the United States as an honorary degree but is an earned degree in other countries. In American legal academia, the LL.M. was ...
Majority undergraduate (MU)—more than 24 percent, but fewer than 50 percent of students are graduate students. Majority graduate/professional (MGP)—fewer than 50 percent of students are undergraduates. Exclusively graduate/professional (ExGP)—students are only awarded degrees higher than bachelor's.
In a competitive job market and an unpredictable economy, more and more people are going back to school to get professional degrees, eyeing careers that they can't enter with a bachelor's degree...
Women in their 50s are now approaching retirement age, but many are not financially prepared for this phase of life.According to a recent AARP study, 64% of women in their 50s say they’re less ...
34.9% of Americans over the age of 25 had educational attainment of having a bachelor's degree or higher in 2019. The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%.