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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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4. Japan, 53.7 percent
In Japan, only half of people qualified to pursue a college education manage to do so. The availability of fulfilling jobs that don’t require a college education is one factor in this trend.
At left, students attend their graduation ceremony at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Japan on in 2009.
Source: Global Education Digest.
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