52 percent of young people in Switzerland now have university or college degrees
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- 03 May 2023
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A new study by the Swiss government has found that the number of young people who have qualifications from universities or institutes of higher education has doubled since 2000. More than half of those living in the alpine nation aged 25 to 34 have graduated from some form of tertiary education.
More than half of young people have university or college degrees
At a press conference, Education Minister Guy Parmelin announced that more than one in two people (52 percent) aged 25 to 34 now have a university degree or a higher vocational qualification. The number of young people in Switzerland who chose to go beyond primary and secondary education has doubled since the beginning of the millennium.
Parmelin told Blick that women now hold a solid majority in universities and vocational schools. In 2021, women made up 57 percent of university and college graduates in Switzerland, up from 42 percent in 1980.
In comparison to other countries in the OECD, Switzerland has a very high rate of graduation. In Italy, for example, only 30 percent of citizens have graduated from tertiary education - although the alpine nation is well behind South Korea, where 70 percent of citizens attend and graduate from university or vocational school. Read More…
