Asian students' share of US AI hardware master's degrees is twice their share of all master's degrees

What the chart shows

In AI hardware-related fields such as electrical engineering, Asian students’ share of master’s degrees at US institutions is 1.99 times their share of all master’s degrees, and 1.48 times at bachelor’s level. At associate’s level they are underrepresented (0.88), while white (1.25) and Native American or Alaska Native students (1.16) are overrepresented.

Black and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students are underrepresented at every level, falling to 0.51 and 0.33 at master’s level. Native American representation drops from 1.16 at associate’s level to 0.46 at master’s level; Hispanic students rise from 0.71 to 0.93.

Key numbers

How to read it

• Each value is a group’s share of 2024 graduates in AI hardware-related majors divided by its share of all graduates at the same degree level; 1 means proportional representation.
• The data covers associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees; the report’s chart legend also lists PhD, but the file has no PhD values.
• US institutions only (IPEDS).