Graduate School Completion

The total number of graduate completions increased between 2001 and 2021 across all award levels and racial and ethnic groups, except for small declines in professional and other doctoral degree completions among American Indian or Alaska Native graduates. The postbaccalaureate certificate completions of Black or African American students rose from 1,602 in 2001 to 10,644 in 2021―a 564 percent increase. In 2021, White students represented the largest share of graduate completions (50.6 percent), followed by international students (13.9 percent), Black or African American students (10.3 percent), Hispanic or Latino students (9.6 percent), Asian students (6.9 percent), and multiracial students (2.6 percent). American Indian or Alaska Native (0.4 percent) and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (0.2 percent) students represented less than 1 percent of all graduate completions in 2021.