According to the survey, 42.37 percent of the software developers had bachelor degrees and just under 21 percent had attained a Master's degree of some form as of 2021. Additionally, just over three percent had obtained some sort of a doctoral degree.
Levels of formal education for software developers, worldwide, as of 2021
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