Is Education Doing Favors For Your Dating Life?
At GCU, we know that many of our students find sparks among their GCU classmates, connecting over shared classes, group projects or on-campus events. Still, we know that different education levels and intellectual perspectives can make or break a relationship right from the start. We’ve heard of dates being intellectually snobby, empty-headed and just about everything in between. And now, as in-person dating resumes in 2021, we were curious to see how intellectual compatibility will impact the fate of new relationships.
To that end, Grand Canyon University, along with help from Grand Canyon Education, surveyed 700 people across the U.S. to uncover how education factors into Americans’ dating lives. We asked survey participants the following questions:
- Do you inherently judge a romantic partner based on their degree attainment or based on which college they attended?
- Do you prefer to be the intellectual superior in a relationship, and to what degree do you like to be intellectually challenged?
- Between earnings potential, educational attainment and beyond, what are your most important dating criteria
- How does degree attainment impact your romantic matches on online dating apps?
Do Americans Date Their Intellectual Equal?
First, we wanted to determine how different groups of people value intellectual parity between partners in a relationship. We asked different demographics about what attitudes they have toward dating their intellectual equal. Nearly 70% of respondents say that it’s important or very important to be intellectually challenged by a romantic partner, whereas less than 10% say that it is unimportant. Millennials value intellectual challenge in a partner more than any other generation. …
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