{"id":417993,"date":"2025-09-12T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417993\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:31:11","slug":"where-in-the-eu-do-most-young-adults-have-a-university-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417993\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the EU do most young adults have a university degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>In Ireland, two in three people aged 25 to 34 held a university degree, such as a bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s or PhD degree, in 2024. This is followed by Luxembourg, at 65%, and Lithuania, at 58%. <\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Czechia recorded the fewest young adults with a degree, at 33%, followed by Hungary and Italy, both at 32%. <\/p>\n<p>This is what the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/education-at-a-glance-2025_1c0d9c79-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Education at a glance<\/a> report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows. <\/p>\n<p>The report also highlights that young people\u2019s education level remains closely tied to that of their parents. <\/p>\n<p>In all countries, children of disadvantaged backgrounds are far less likely to go to university or college than those from more advantaged backgrounds. <\/p>\n<p>The gap between the share of young adults with parents holding a university degree (70%) and that of young adults whose parents don\u2019t have one (49%) is the lowest in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this gap is the widest in Poland (79% among young adults whose parents have an degree and 11% among those whose parents don&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>Higher levels of education are strongly linked to increased employment rates, higher earnings and better health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT In Ireland, two in three people aged 25 to 34 held a university degree, such as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,18109,15065,5178],"class_list":{"0":"post-417993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-higher-education","12":"tag-students","13":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115190398361906180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}