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New Delhi: According to research by Gallup, the share of Americans considering college education as 'very important' has fallen from 75 per cent in 2010 to 35 per cent in 2025.
On the other hand, 40 per cent of Americans now think that college education is “fairly important,” while 24 per cent say it is “not too important,” as per the Gallup research. In 2019, 53 per cent of US adults considered college education very important. However, it was 70 per cent in 2013 and 75 per cent in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who see college as not too important has more than doubled since 2019. In 2010, that number was 4 per cent.
The views of the parents in the US are also important here. When the parents of children under the age of 18 were asked about the importance of college education in the August 1-20 poll, 38 per cent of them rated college as very important, while 40 per cent considered it somewhat important and 21 per cent as not too important.
While the decline in the rating of college education's importance was mostly among 18- to 34-year-olds than among older adults between 2013 and 2019, the rates have gone downward among the latter group since then, as is evident from the latest Gallup research. Even among the groups that value higher education more, like women, people of colour, college graduates, and Democrats, less than half now say college is very important.
While a college education is still valuable to many Americans, the numbers have steeply declined in the last five years. The confidence among the US citizens in higher education has nosedived in the last decade, and the latest Gallup research has unearthed a worrying trend.
