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President Barack Obama hasn’t wavered in his goal for U.S. higher education since announcing it two and a half years ago: By 2020, the country will again lead the world in the percentage of young people (aged 25-34) who are college graduates. To hit this mark, the Obama administration aims to have 58-60 percent of young people holding an associate or bachelor’s degree by the end of the decade. Higher education is rapidly becoming a priority across the globe, however, and many countries have their own versions of the American Graduation Initiative.

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Graphic: College grad goals from around the world

by Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report
August 24, 2011

<h1>Graphic: College grad goals from around the world</h1> <p class="byline">by Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report <br />August 24, 2011</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_lq2yxahD1M1qkraeco1_r2_500.jpg?ssl=1"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_lq2yxahD1M1qkraeco1_r2_500-400x180.jpg?resize=400%2C180&amp;ssl=1" alt="college grad goals" class="wp-image-6120" title="Higher education attainment goals from around the world" height="180" width="400" /></a></figure> </div> <p>President Barack Obama hasn’t wavered in his goal for U.S. higher education since announcing it two and a half years ago: By 2020, the country will again lead the world in the percentage of young people (aged 25-34) who are college graduates. To hit this mark, the Obama administration aims to have <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/completion_state_by_state.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">58-60 percent of young people holding an associate or bachelor’s degree</a> by the end of the decade. Higher education is rapidly becoming a priority across the globe, however, and many countries have their own versions of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Excerpts-of-the-Presidents-remarks-in-Warren-Michigan-and-fact-sheet-on-the-American-Graduation-Initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Graduation Initiative</a>.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/graphic-college-grad-goals-from-around-the-world/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=6118&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/graphic-college-grad-goals-from-around-the-world/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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