Educational Attainment

The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.

This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.

An influx of students from low-income families and students of color at U.S. colleges and universities has almost exclusively fueled the growth in the overall number of undergraduates.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans participate in some type of community group or organization, including 11% who say they take part in at least four such groups.

Many Americans support encouraging high-skilled immigration into the United States. But the U.S. trails other economically advanced nations in its share of immigrants with high skills.

Looking for a new religious congregation is common in the U.S. But how likely Americans are to look for a new church varies by their education and income levels.

In 2016, 17.2% of U.S. immigrants ages 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree and another 12.8% had attained a postgraduate degree. Both shares are up since 1980.

Muslim societies have gained a reputation in recent decades for failing to adequately educate women. But a new analysis of Pew Research Center data on educational attainment and religion suggests that economics, not religion, is the key factor limiting the education of Muslim women.