College degrees awarded per capita in the U.S.A.

[rhiever]

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/12/college-degrees-awarded-per-capita-in-the-usa/

[oxalo]

I'm curious what the cause of the dip is in the 90's. Anyone have any ideas on what could've caused that? Price of school, societal trends, etc.

[rhiever → oxalo]

There have been several theories suggested on /r/dataisbeautiful -- come check it out: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/27ypq1/coll...

[001sky]

This is eye-opening (in one chart):

http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/all-degrees-pc...

Master's degrees in particular stand out.