The number of U.S. Hispanics with a bachelor’s degree or higher increased by 80 percent between 2001 and 2011, from 2.1 million to 3.8 million, the Census Bureau said.

Just over 14 percent of the country’s 50.5 million Latinos had a bachelor’s degree in 2011, compared with 11.1 percent in 2001.

In general terms nationwide, 26.2 percent of Americans had a degree in 2001, compared with 30.4 percent a decade later, the first time in the history of the Census when more than 30 percent of people over age 25 have graduated from college.