A recent study shows that while young people are delaying marriage until much later in life than they were a generation or two ago, a surprising number are still finding their spouses in college:
In 2013, women generally don’t go to college for their “MRS” degrees — meaning, going to college to find a young man with a good education and high earning potential — instead, they often focus on education and career before getting married.
A 2011 Pew Research survey found that the median age of first marriage was around 27 for women and 29 for men — years after college graduation.
That doesn’t mean college students have stopped finding their fiancés in the undergraduate dating pool.
A Facebook Data Sciences study released last week found that about 28% of married graduates attended the same college as their spouse. About 15% of individuals on Facebook attended the same high school as their spouse…
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