> While a small minority of graduate students may come from the lowest income backgrounds, on average they're highly educated and privileged. It's somewhat dif

> While a small minority of graduate students may come from the lowest income backgrounds, on average they're highly educated and privileged. It's somewhat difficult to find high-quality statistics on graduate students in the United States, but I tried to look up some information for context. The following is not an random collection: It appears that more than a third of doctoral students in the United States are not US citizens (compared to 7% of the overall population). Perhaps a slight majority (~52--53%) of doctoral students are female. Graduate students are also slightly more likely to be non-white than the general population. The majority are under 32 (of course).