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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by medium_burrito on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:42PM (#24630744)
In Europe far fewer people go to college vs the US (apart from Norway, UK, NL). Moreover, they have significantly more rigorous secondary educations, especially on the technical track.
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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by theptip on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:50PM (#24631493)
I wasn't familiar with the stats here, and this seems to be true (though I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "far fewer"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

Though note that the gap closes when you compare "equivalent to a 4-year degree or higher" rather than "equivalent to a 2-year degree or higher". Seems that 2/3 year degrees are much more common in the US for some reason. Wonder if that's 3-year bachelor's degrees vs. the more common 4-year in many European institutions.

E.g. US/UK/DE/FR, pct completed for 25-34 yr olds:

2 year: 47/49/30/45 4-year: 36/42/28/28

I'd be interested in further reading/analysis as this is a pretty rough eyeball of the tabular data on my part, and I'm not claiming to have understood this fully.

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