Sixty-eight percent of the high school class of 2014 was enrolled in college by October 2014, according to new data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure is up from 2013, when 66 percent of graduates enrolled in college the following year. Nationwide, only 32 percent of U.S. adults over age 25 hold bachelor’s degrees, so the numbers demonstrate a potential for that number to rise much higher.

Asian (86 percent) and black students (71 percent) were more likely than whites (67 percent) to enroll in college. Sixty-five percent of Hispanic graduates of all races were enrolled.