How to Use higher education in a Sentence

higher education

noun
  • Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.
  • Both districts do pay more, though, for those with higher education.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Read on to see who else has pursued higher education at some of our nation’s top schools.
    — Diana Pearl, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
  • What is in store for higher education?
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This all ties to her life's mission of making sure all girls get higher education.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But higher education doesn't work that way.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • And that’s been enough to help the higher education lobby long stymie calls for reform.
    — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Grawe agrees that higher education isn’t ready for what’s coming.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • Their prospects of access to higher education and white-collar jobs are bleak.
    — Saumya Roy, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Five out of the nine are in the top ten lowest for rates of higher education attainment.
    — Hank Sanders, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There is still plenty left to do to reform higher education.
    — David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Their strike was seen as a precursor to a surge of union activism in higher education.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And yet, these debates about race and higher education focus on the end of a long pipeline.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • This hybrid approach is where higher education can grow and evolve.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The goal of higher education is to prepare students with skills for the real world.
    — WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The plan does nothing to help our most needy increase their chances of success in higher education.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But much more of higher education looks like UMaine.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Those shifts have left higher education with more supply than demand.
    — Leah Willingham, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not to say there aren’t advocates on both sides of the aisle who want to reform higher education.
    — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Have a question about schools and higher education?
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That said, his ideas for the higher education boards were among his more modest policy ideas.
    — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Each time, state budgets took a big hit, and lawmakers looked to higher education to help close their deficits.
    — Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The teacher said that the school gets rated based on how many of its alumni go on to receive a higher education.
    — Fortune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Does this mean pricey higher education will get the reset or even comeuppance many say is coming to it?
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Pew found that adults with higher education are more likely to get married in the first place and less likely to divorce.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The cost of higher education has increased faster than inflation for years.
    — Mike Scott, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
  • The authors are likely right about one thing – higher education is at or near an inflection point.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Boston might have bragging rights to being a hub of higher education, life science, and even its parks.
    — Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Some in higher education welcome the change.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • College football is the front porch of higher education.
    — Riley Gaines Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026

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