Indicator A3 How Many Students Finish Tertiary Education?
• Based on current patterns of graduation, it is estimated that an average of 46 % of today’s women and 31 % of today’s men in OECD countries will complete tertiary-type A education (largely theory-based) over their lifetimes. Only 39 % of women and 25 % of men will do so before the age of 30. • In...
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| Summary: | • Based on current patterns of graduation, it is estimated that an average of 46 % of today’s women and 31 % of today’s men in OECD countries will complete tertiary-type A education (largely theory-based) over their lifetimes. Only 39 % of women and 25 % of men will do so before the age of 30. • In some countries, it is common for students older than 30 to graduate from tertiary-type A programmes. More than 30 % of women in Iceland and Sweden who graduate from these programmes, and more than 30 % of men in Iceland and Israel who do so, are over 30. Chart A3.1. Tertiary-type A graduation rates in 2009, by gender (first-time graduates) 90 |
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