# How much education have you had? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084 "2011-05-16T13:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/1 "2011-05-16T13:42:53Z")
Stats lifted from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States). 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% ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/2 "2011-05-16T13:45:36Z")
I have a Bachelor’s Degree, and also some Trade School education, but I didn’t see any option to allow more than one selection. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/3 "2011-05-16T13:49:53Z")
I have a B.S. and am currently working on my MBA. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/4 "2011-05-16T13:52:40Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I have a B.S. and am currently working on my MBA. I’ve been thinking about getting an MBA. How is it going? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/5 "2011-05-16T14:08:38Z")
For purposes of your poll, would you consider a GED = high school graduate? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/6 "2011-05-16T14:27:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/7 "2011-05-16T14:35:29Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > For purposes of your poll, would you consider a GED = high school graduate? Yep ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/8 "2011-05-16T14:36:21Z")
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. I picked “some college” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/9 "2011-05-16T14:39:35Z")
I have a Master’s degree, and I’m about a year shy of a PhD. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/10 "2011-05-16T14:46:42Z")
Finished off a BS in mathematics and BA in philosophy in December. Hopefully will find something this fall to continue moving on and up. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/11 "2011-05-16T14:48:13Z")
I wonder if there will be bias in the results because we who have more formal education are more willing to answer the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/12 "2011-05-16T14:55:52Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/13 "2011-05-16T14:57:05Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > Finished off a BS in mathematics and BA in philosophy in December. Hopefully will find something this fall to continue moving on and up. Keep studying that driving! You could graduate to a big rig! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/14 "2011-05-16T15:02:29Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I wonder if there will be bias in the results because we who have more formal education are more willing to answer the poll. Typical mind set of the academic elite. An inability to educate yourself is nothing to be proud of. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/15 "2011-05-16T15:06:17Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Keep studying that driving! You could graduate to a big rig! 😛 Hah. I really have had the “chuck it all and become a truck driver” urge many times! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/16 "2011-05-16T15:09:22Z")
I finished all the coursework necessary to get a Ph.D. but I don’t have one as a result of the minor detail that I never finished my thesis. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/17 "2011-05-16T15:16:20Z")
My dream “YOU ALL SUCK AND I QUIT!” scenario has me mixing paint at Home Depot. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/18 "2011-05-16T15:20:39Z")
Bachelor’s degree that I never used in a professional capacity. Lots of trade schools and certifications, and a shitload of hard knocks education. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/19 "2011-05-16T15:24:04Z")
B.S. in biology (that’s bat shit, TYVM), working on a DVM. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084/20 "2011-05-16T15:28:18Z")
> [@horsetech](#): > > B.S. in biology (that’s bat shit, TYVM), working on a DVM. You wrote an honors thesis on guano? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-education-have-you-had/582084.md?page=2)