Graduate School Completion

The most popular field of study in which students earned postbaccalaureate certificates in 2021 was education (31.0 percent), followed by business and management (17.9 percent), health (17.2 percent), and STEM (11.3 percent) fields 

• Over one-third of all White (36.6 percent) and American Indian or Alaska Native (37.1 percent) students earned a postbaccalaureate certificate in education, compared with 14.8 percent of Asian students and 6.8 percent of international students.  
• More than one in five Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (24.8 percent), Black or African American (21.7 percent), international (20.9 percent), and Asian (20.4 percent) students earned a postbaccalaureate certificate in business and management.  
• Of the Asian students who completed a postbaccalaureate certificate, 30.7 percent students did so in health.  
• Nearly one-third of international students earned a postbaccalaureate certificate in STEM fields (31.5 percent). In contrast, fewer than 10 percent of White (9.2 percent), Hispanic or Latino (8.6 percent), and Black or African American (8.0 percent) students did so.