China and India are expanding their influence in the higher
education arena -- according to a new report from the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, about 40
percent of young postsecondary degree-holders in leading
countries will come from China and India by 2020. The United
States and some European Union countries will produce about 25
percent. The report, which is part of the organization’s series
Education Indicators in Focus, looked at higher education
graduates between the ages of 25 and 34 in OECD and Group of
Twenty member countries -- 42 countries total. The gap between
China and the United States -- the two leading producers of
graduates in 2010, with 18 and 14 percent, respectively -- will
grow even larger by 2020. China is expected to produce 29
percent of all higher education graduates studied in the report,
and the United States is expected to produce 11 percent of all
those graduates. India, which produced 11 percent of graduates
in 2010, is expected to overtake the United St