---
title: "Marriage and College"
description: "Throughout the 20th century, college-educated Americans were less likely to be married by age 30 than Americans without a college degree."
date: "2010-10-07"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/10/07/marriage-and-college/"
categories:
  - "Higher Education"
  - "Marriage & Divorce"
---

# Marriage and College

Throughout the 20th century, college-educated Americans were less likely to be married by age 30 than Americans without a college degree. [That pattern has now reversed](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/11/767-college-marriage-gap.pdf), according to a new report by the Pew Social & Demographic Trends project of the Pew Research Center.

The report is based on data from the 1950 to 2000 Decennial Censuses and the Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey.