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Having a college degree nearly doubles your annual earnings.
Individuals 25 and over with college degrees earn an average of $54,635 a year, while those with a high school diploma earn $34,315.
Maryland has the nation's 5th highest percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher (35.2%).
The Top 10 most popular college majors nationwide are business, psychology, nursing, biology, education, English, economics, communications studies/speech, political science, computer science.
Community colleges serve close to half of the undergraduate students in the U.S., which included more than 6.5 million credit students in the fall of 2005.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Education Statistics, CampusGrotto.com, Princeton Review, American Association of Community Colleges