It sounds like you've confused tertiary with post-graduate. Tertiary typically means post-secondary. Secondary typically means US high school or equivalent. (f

It sounds like you've confused tertiary with post-graduate. Tertiary typically means post-secondary. Secondary typically means US high school or equivalent. (from wiki: " The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as institutions that teach specific capacities of higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and distance learning centers.[1]") So the electrician with a CC degree has a tertiary education. Of course, so does the Ph.D. Hopefully that clarifies the magnitude of the fact that fewer than 1/2 of young Americans obtained a tertiary degree...