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Education Issues

February 27, 2012

Number of U.S. Adults with College Degrees Hits Historic High

College attainment has crept upward, slowly but steadily, says the Washington Post.
  • In 1947, just 5 percent of Americans age 25 and older held degrees from four-year colleges.
  • As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of the adult population held college degrees.
  • In 2011, three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor's degrees, representing a historic high.
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But in terms of future earnings, education level matters less these days than in previous generations, and field of study matters more.
  • Census data show that an associate's degree in engineering or computers is worth as much or more, on average, than a bachelor's in education or the liberal arts.
  • An associate's degree in engineering yielded $4,257 in monthly earnings in 2009, compared with $4,000 for a bachelor's in the liberal arts and $3,417 for a bachelor's in education.
  • A two-year degree in computers fetched $4,000 a month, the same median earnings as a four-year degree in the humanities.
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