The number of women’s colleges in the U.S. has declined since the mid-20th century, a result of many becoming coeducational, merging with other institutions or simply closing their doors.
In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the official or state law for people who share their religion, and whether their country can be both a democratic country and a Muslim […]
A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, including those who had not finished high school. The overall number of employed young adults has grown over the decades as […]
We asked Americans what they think about the value of a four-year college degree from a few different angles: The importance of a four-year college degree Four-in-ten Americans say it is not too or not at all important to have a four-year college degree in order to get a well-paying job in today’s economy. Only […]
Asian immigrants come from many cultures and origins. Their migration stories are also diverse. The Vietnam War and other conflicts in Southeast Asia brought Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian refugees to the United States. More recently, flows of Asian immigrants, particularly highly skilled immigrants from India and China, came to study and work in the […]