{"id":6907,"date":"2010-06-13T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2010-06-13T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:11:26","slug":"fun-facts-15-percentages-of-high-school-grads-matriculating-into-college-by-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6907","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts #15: Percentages of J high school grads matriculating into college by prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0As a Sunday Tangent, here are the Ministry of Education’s latest figures (2009) for Japanese high school students entering college. \u00a0In most prefectures, it’s only about half the graduates:<\/p>\n

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Source<\/strong>: \u00a0Eiken Facts 2010, “Eiken Shikakku Shutokusha Kakutoku de Daigaku no Miryoku Zukuri o”, (Zaidan Houjin Nihon Eiken Kyouryokukai\/MEXT 2010, pg 5)<\/em><\/p>\n

A cursory look reveals that Okinawa has by far the fewest percentage of students going on to college (the national average is 53.9%), and Tokyo\/Kyoto (Kyoto allegedly being the place with the highest number of colleges per capita) the highest. \u00a0Hokkaido is significantly below average as well (third from the bottom), but it’s still higher than Iwate. \u00a0See how your prefecture stacks up.<\/p>\n

As this is a Fun Facts category, I’ll leave interpretations to others. \u00a0But this is significantly less than the American percentages, according to the US Department of Labor, reporting that 70.1% of high school graduates went to college last year<\/a>. \u00a0Given that university is significantly more expensive in the US than in Japan (it costs at least a luxury car per year these days in tuition alone to go to, say, an elite private or Ivy League), I’m disinclined to say it’s a matter of economics. \u00a0Thoughts? \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a Sunday Tangent, here are the Ministry of Education’s latest figures (2009) for Japanese high school students entering college. In most prefectures, it’s only about half the graduates. Figures here.<\/p>\n

A cursory look reveals that Okinawa has by far the fewest percentage of students going on to college (the national average is 53.9%), and Tokyo\/Kyoto (Kyoto allegedly being the place with the highest number of colleges per capita) the highest. Hokkaido is significantly below average as well (third from the bottom), but it’s still higher than Iwate. See how your prefecture stacks up. <\/p>\n

As this is a Fun Facts category, I’ll leave interpretations to others. But this is significantly less than the American percentages, according to the US Department of Labor, reporting that 70.1% of high school graduates went to college last year. Given that university is significantly more expensive in the US than in Japan (it costs at least a luxury car per year these days in tuition alone to go to, say, an elite private or Ivy League), I’m disinclined to say it’s a matter of economics. Thoughts? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-fun-facts","category-tangents","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}