In 2016, 17.2% of U.S. immigrants ages 25 and older had a bachelorโs degree and another 12.8% had attained a postgraduate degree. Both shares are up since 1980.
Nearly 364,000 foreign students with F-1 visas were newly enrolled at a U.S. college or university in 2016, double the number at the outset of the Great Recession.
The resettlement of refugees in the U.S. has been fairly consistent across the country since 2002, with no state resettling a majority of them. In fiscal year 2017, no state resettled more than 10% of the 53,716 refugees the nation admitted that year.