education levels
Schooling stage classifications
Education levels are the stages or degrees of formal schooling a person has completed.
Standard categories progress from elementary through secondary school, then to undergraduate and graduate degrees.
The term appears frequently on surveys, job applications, and demographic forms: What's the highest education level you've completed?
Education level often serves as shorthand for credentials or qualifications.
- elementary schoolInstitution for young pupils
- preschoolEarly childhood educational program
- certificate programsFocused courses granting credentials
- high schoolUpper secondary institution
- prep schoolPrivate pre-college institution
apprenticeship programs · GED · postgraduate studies · university · ivy league · community colleges · kindergarten · doctoral programs · trade school · middle school · playgroup · online courses · associate degree · college · technical college · freshman · literacy programs · nursery school
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education levelsautodidacticism
Practice of self-instruction
street smarts · life experience · school of hard knocks · practical wisdom · apprenticeship
education levelsilliteracy
Inability to read
uneducated · unschooled · ignorance · untrained · unlearned
education levelsfunctional illiteracy
Inadequate reading for daily life