The graphs below show that post-school qualifications held by Canadians in the age groups 25 to 35 and 45 to 55.

The pie charts below illustrate Canadians’ higher education fields that were born in 1998 and 1988, and 1978 and 1968.

Overall

, the majority of the undergraduates from both decades chose to

further

their studies in social sciences and arts. Other than that, there is a significant increment over the years in most of the majors between the two age groups.

Firstly

, the administration sector has favoured many current students compared to the previous years as it increases by 4%

as well as

science, maths, and computers field which skyrockets by 10%.

Furthermore

, there is a slight growth for education and MBA between the age classes by 2% and 3% respectively.

On the other hand

, it is obvious that the percentage of engineering students plunge sharply from 19% to 9% in both decades

while

the number of nursing graduates seems to decline in recent generations as it reduces by 4%.

Last

but not least, both social science and art, and humanities fall by 1% only.