Stats lifted from Wikipedia. These are for US only. Sorry - I’m Americentric.
Education Percentage
High school graduate 86.68%
Some college 55.60%
Associates and/or Bachelor’s degree 38.54%
Master’s degree 7.62%
Doctorate or professional degree 2.94%
I have a master’s (terminal) and I’m working on a PhD. The MS was used to switch fields - I have a BA with a double major in Philosophy and Political Science, but after a year of law school I decided I didn’t like it enough to pay for the rest of the JD, so i took a few years off to work and ended up more interested in economics. I spent two years doing a master’s with a concentration in applied econometrics and taking the requisite math courses and now I’m enrolled in a doctoral program.
I have a GED, and keep going back to the local Purdue campus to take classes, on and off for the past ten years or so. I just really like school, I guess.
There should have been a choice for, “Enough to know the limits of a formal higher education, but not enough to understand why the whole world is so fucked up.”