---
title: "Marriage and College"
description: "This links to a FactTank posting about recently released Census Bureau data on the living arrangements of parents by educational attainment."
date: "2013-11-27"
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/2013/11/27/marriage-and-college-2/"
---

# Marriage and College

Parents who live with children younger than 18 are much more likely to be married if they are college-educated than if they are not, according to new data from the Census Bureau that reaffirm the strong links between educational attainment and marital status. [Read more at FactTank](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/11/27/the-links-between-education-marriage-and-parenting/).