a rising share of recent Hispanic immigrants have a college degree U.S residence
The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the United States has reached its highest level in at least three decades, reflecting changes in where immigrants are coming from and rising education levels in Latin America and other regions, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
About a quarter (26%) of recently arrived Latino immigrants ages 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or more education in 2018, up from just 10% in 1990. They are among a rapidly growing share of recently arrived Hispanic immigrants who have completed high school – 67% in 2018, up from 38% in 1990. These increases have helped raise the education levels of all Latino immigrants and shifted the group toward high-skill occupations and away from low-skill ones. Latino immigrants who have been in the U.S. for more than a decade have a very different educational profile than recent arrivals – defined here as those in the country for five years or less. About one-in-ten Latino immigrants who are long-term residents (12%) had a college degree in 2018, part of the 54% of long-term Latino residents who had completed high school.
a rising share of recent Hispanic  | immigrants have a college degree  | % ofUS Hispanic immigrants ages 25 and older with  | a bachelor s degree or more education, by duration of  | U.S residence  | 26  | %  | 5 years or less in U.S.  | 14  | 11  | 10  | 12  | 8  | 8  | More than 8 10 years  | 2018  | 1990  | 2000  | 2010  | Note: Hispanics are of any race  | Source: Pew Research Center tabulations of the 1990 and 2000  | census (5% IPUMS) and 2005 2010 2015 and 2018 American  | Community Survey (1% IPUMS)  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 