Editing Generation X (section)

=====Continued growth in college enrollments=====
[[File:Total Fall Enrollment in US degree granting Institutions 1965-1998.png|thumb|upright=1.2|Total Fall Enrollment in U.S. degree granting Institutions 1965–1998]]
In the U.S., compared to the Boomer generation, Generation X was more educated than their parents. The share of young adults enrolling in college steadily increased from 1983, before peaking in 1998. In 1965, as early Boomers entered college, total enrollment of new undergraduates was just over 5.7&nbsp;million individuals across the public and private sectors. By 1983, the first year of Gen X college enrollments (as per Pew Research's definition), this figure had reached 12.2&nbsp;million. This was an increase of 53%, effectively a doubling in student intake. As the 1990s progressed, Gen X college enrollments continued to climb, with increased loan borrowing as the cost of an education became substantially more expensive compared to their peers in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=US Congress, Senate Committee on Finance Staff|title=Education Tax Proposals: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance|publisher=US Government Printing Office, 1999|year=1999|isbn=978-0-16-058193-9|pages=99}}</ref> By 1998, the generation's last year of college enrollment, those entering the higher education sector totaled 14.3&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d00/dt174.asp|title=Total fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by control and type of institution: 1965 to 1998|date=July 2000|website=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=3 February 2023|archive-date=1 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101005108/https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d00/dt174.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, unlike Boomers and previous generations, women outpaced men in college completion rates.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bialik|first=Kristen|url=https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations/|title=Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generation|date=14 February 2019|work=Pew Research Center|access-date=3 February 2023|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208213629/https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations/|url-status=live}}</ref>