I just found these statistics. (source: us census bureau, pbs, pew forum, some other places). Who is most likely to have a college degree? Well, about 38 percent of people in America have a college degree. But that isn't a good statistic, because it doesn't describe who is trying for an education. 67 percent of Indian-Americans (Hindu) have a degree 60 percent of Pakistani-Americans have a degree 59 percent of Jews have a college degree 50 percent of Asians (total) have a college degree 36 percent of Arab-Americans have a college degree 29 percent of whites have a college degree 25 percent of immigrant blacks (from Africa) have a degree obtained here, and 16 percent of American blacks have a degree 13 percent of native Latinos have a degree, 9 percent of immigrant Latinos have a degree.
Great work. I think the high Indian/Pakistani statistic is due to the fact that the vast majority of the most intelligent and motivated individuals from these countries go overseas for higher education (particularly to the USA and Australia).
The Cuban education spending statistic is amazing. I'm going to bring that one out whenever people claim that education spending is needed in order for people to become relatively wealthy, when in reality it is neither necessary nor sufficient, and its positivie effects compared to the detrimental effects of state intervention are meagre.
Thomas Sowell pointed this out here at 5:35.
"One of the things that protects American education is the fact that American universities are in fact leading universities of the world. But that's very misleading because some of these universities are so good, that it's very hard for American college students to get into them. [...] So what we really have are international universities, on American soil."