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# Women earned 36% of US AI software-related master's degrees in 2024, their highest share at any level
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/women-share-us-ai-software-graduates/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:23:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:06:08.000Z
- Description: Women made up 36% of master's graduates in AI software-related fields at US institutions in 2024 and 31% of PhD graduates, but only 27% of bachelor's and 23% of associate's graduates.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI in Education, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-education, #country-us, #topic-women-in-ai

36%

women's share of master's graduates in AI software-related fields at US institutions, 2024; associate's 23%

Women's share, 2024

Master’s36%

PhD31%

Bachelor’s27%

Associate’s23%

## What the chart shows

Women earned 36% of master’s degrees in AI software-related fields at US institutions in 2024, and 31% of PhDs. Their share is lower at undergraduate level: 27% of bachelor’s and 23% of associate’s graduates.

Men are the majority at every level. They outnumber women by about three to one among bachelor’s graduates (73% to 27%) and by nearly two to one among master’s graduates (64% to 36%).

## Key numbers

| Measure            | Value |
| ------------------ | ----- |
| Master's, women    | 36%   |
| PhD, women         | 31%   |
| Bachelor's, women  | 27%   |
| Associate's, women | 23%   |
| Master's, men      | 64%   |

## How to read it

- Shares of 2024 graduates in AI software-related majors at US institutions (IPEDS), as whole percentages. The data records gender as female or male only.
- In AI hardware-related fields women’s share is lower at every level: 16% of associate’s, 21% of bachelor’s, 27% of master’s and 24% of PhD graduates (the report’s second panel, not charted separately).
- The AI Index notes that women earn nearly 60% of all degrees; that comparison is not in this data.

**Source:** [National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#nces-ipeds), 2024, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 7.2.2: *AI-related postsecondary graduates in the United States by gender, 2024 (AI software–related)*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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