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Originally Posted by edale
Do you have stats for the Canadian provinces too? That would be pretty interesting. Of the most populated provinces, I'd guess BC would have the highest percent of college educated. Saskatchewan would be last? But really I have no clue.
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I'll post some stats in a bit.
In Canada, the percentage of degrees is a bit lower. Two reasons in particular:
What they call colleges in Canada (as opposed to universities) do vocational training and don't grant bachelor's degrees. You can get a bachelor's degrees in something like hotel management in the US, in Canada there's no degree for that. Twice as many Canadians I believe have college certificates or diplomas as Americans have associate's degrees. Going to community college and then transferring to a 4-year institution isn't really a thing in Canada; there's more separation of college and university.
There's fewer graduate degrees because there hasn't been an explosion of the master's. For instance, teachers spend about as much time in university as teachers with masters' in the US, but they don't have the masters' as a license to practice degree, with University of Toronto being the exception). Instead you get a Bachelor of Education which is one or two years in length. It can be done concurrently or consecutively, but you do a longer degree. So the proportion of teachers with graduate degrees is lower.