Qualities parents consider important their child gains at university, 2015

This statistic shows the share of parents from selected countries who considered the listed qualities as an important quality to be gained from their child attending university in 2015. In 2015, becoming independent was the quality that the highest share of parents, 86 percent, considered to be an important quality to be gained from university.

Qualities children gain from higher education parents consider most important in selected countries in 2015

Characteristic	Share of parents
Becoming independent	86%
Learning to become financially responsible	84%
Being socially confident	83%
Becoming knowledgeable about the wider world	78%
Developing strong leadership skills	75%
Mixing with people from a diverse range of backgrounds	72%
Developing IT skills	71%
Excelling academically	70%

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Release date

July 2015

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March and April 2015

Number of respondents

5,550 parents

Supplementary notes

Figures are based on those collected from Ipsos MORI for HSBC.

Interviews were conducted in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US.

The percentages shown are the share of respondents who answered important or extremely important to the question: "How important, if at all, do you think it is for students to gain or experience the following from their university education?"

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