| Percentage distribution of 1999–2000 bachelor’s degree recipients according to age at bachelor’s degree completion, by gender, race/ethnicity, and parents’ educational attainment |
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| Age at bachelor’s degree completion |
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| Student demographic characteristics | 22 or younger |
23–24 | 25–29 | 30–39 | 40 or older |
| Total | 49.2 | 20.2 | 14.0 | 9.2 | 7.5 |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 45.8 | 24.5 | 15.0 | 8.9 | 5.8 |
| Female | 51.7 | 17.0 | 13.3 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 52.1 | 19.4 | 12.4 | 8.9 | 7.3 |
| Black/African American, non-Hispanic | 36.4 | 23.3 | 13.1 | 13.8 | 13.5 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 38.2 | 23.1 | 22.2 | 8.4 | 8.1 |
| Asian | 49.5 | 22.3 | 20.6 | 5.8 | 1.8 |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 19.4 | 31.6 | 19.1 | 18.0 | 11.9 |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 32.6 | 20.5 | 27.6 | 17.1 | 2.2 |
| Other race1 | 49.7 | 15.5 | 20.1 | 11.4 | 3.3 |
| More than one race | 56.8 | 18.1 | 11.1 | 8.4 | 5.6 |
| Parents’ educational attainment | |||||
| Less than high school | 17.0 | 15.3 | 18.5 | 17.3 | 31.9 |
| High school or equivalency | 34.0 | 21.3 | 16.5 | 14.5 | 13.8 |
| Some postsecondary education | 50.6 | 19.7 | 13.5 | 10.2 | 6.1 |
| Bachelor’s degree | 58.8 | 19.5 | 12.4 | 6.2 | 3.2 |
| Master’s degree or equivalent | 63.6 | 19.5 | 9.9 | 4.9 | 2.1 |
| Doctoral/professional degree | 73.2 | 13.5 | 8.0 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
| 1Respondents identified themselves as belonging to another race. See the glossary for details. |
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| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. |
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| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:2000/01). |
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