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Countries with the highest college graduation rates
Among today’s American 25- to 34-year olds, slightly more than 40 percent have associate’s degrees or higher. But that rate places the US only 12th of the 36 countries in a College Board study of countries with the highest graduation rates. Here are the top six countries.
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1. Canada, 55.8 percent
In Canada, an associate’s degree is commonly seen as equivalent to the first two years of a four-year degree. Canada also has 2.5 percent of the world’s mobile, or international, students in its colleges.
At left, DeVry Institute of Technology in Toronto holds a graduation ceremony in 2001.
Source: Global Education Digest.
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