Americans aren’t so sure that a college education will help them get ahead.

According to a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, released Monday, only 36 percent of adults have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education. While it’s not a dip since last year (the rate was the same in 2023), confidence in college has plummeted since 2015 when it was 57 percent.

The importance of college seems to be yet another thing Americans are deeply divided over. Fewer Americans say they have even “some” confidence in higher education (32 percent, down from 40 percent). And even more have “very little” or no confidence (32 percent, up from 23 percent). Therefore, nearly the same number of people feel that higher education isn’t important as those who feel it is.

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