LINCOLN - While rural Nebraskans remain confident that higher education can lead to a good job, those surveyed in the 2019 Nebraska Rural Poll put less importance on a college education today than they did four years ago.

Only 33% of respondents believed that increasing the number of people who get college degrees was necessary to build a strong economy, compared to 53% in 2015. Additionally, only 44% of those surveyed believed that getting a college education is more important now than it was 10 years ago and only 38% believed it was necessary to get a college degree in order to get ahead in life.

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