Graduate School Completion

Overall, 21.2 percent of all 2021 research doctoral degree recipients had ever attended a community college. By race and ethnicity among domestic students, the share of research doctoral degree recipients who had attended a community college ranged from 21.3 percent of Asian students to 55.4 percent of American Indians or Alaska Native students. Only 4.0 percent of international students who earned a research doctoral degree had ever attended a community college.