Editing Homeschooling (section)

==== Higher education ====
Looking beyond high school, a study by the 1990 National Home Education Research Institute (as cited by Wichers, 2001) found that at least 33% of homeschooled students attended a four-year college, and 17% attended a two-year college<ref name=":13" /> (with the national average being 40% and 20%, respectively).<ref name=":8" /> This same study examined the students after one year, finding that 17% pursued higher education.<ref name=":13">Wichers, M. (2001). Homeschooling: adventitious or detrimental for proficiency in higher education. ''Education'', 122, 145–150</ref> A study by the [[Kentucky]] Office Of Education Accountability found that homeschooled students attended college or university within Kentucky at less than half the rate of other Kentucky high school graduates, with the academic outcomes of other homeschooled students being unknown.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kentucky Office of Education Accountability |title=Homeschooling in Kentucky |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/lrc/publications/ResearchReports/RR454.pdf}}</ref>

Although educational outcomes of homeschoolers are difficult to track, especially where homeschooled students are not required to be registered, home-schoolers tend to take standardized college admission tests such as the [[SAT]] at a disproportionately low rate, suggesting they may be underrepresented in higher education.<ref name=":8" />  Some homeschoolers averaged higher scores on college entrance tests in South Carolina.<ref>Homeschool Legal Defense Association. "Academic Statistics on Homeschooling." [http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp Hslda.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050409185326/http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp|date=2005-04-09}}</ref> Other scores (1999 data) showed mixed results, for example showing higher levels for homeschoolers in English (homeschooled 23.4 vs national average 20.5) and reading (homeschooled 24.4 vs national average 21.4) on the ACT, but mixed scores in math (homeschooled 20.4 vs national average 20.7 on the ACT as opposed to homeschooled 535 vs national average 511 on the 1999 SAT math).<ref>{{Cite news |author=Daniel Golden |date=11 February 2000 |title=Home-Schooled Kids Defy Stereotypes, Ace SAT Test |url=http://www.oakmeadow.com/resources/articles/WSJArticle.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118013315/http://www.oakmeadow.com/resources/articles/WSJArticle.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2010 |work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref>

For those homeschoolers who do pursue higher education, their GPA tends to be higher.<ref name=":8" /> Cogan (2010) found that homeschooled students at a doctoral program had higher high school GPAs (3.74) and transfer GPAs (3.65) than conventional students.<ref>Cogan, F. (2010). Exploring academic outcomes of homeschooled students. ''Journal of College Admission'', 208, 18–25</ref> Snyder (2013) provided corroborating evidence that homeschoolers at a Catholic university were outperforming their peers in the areas of standardized tests and overall GPAs.<ref>Snyder, Marc. (2013). An evaluative study of the academic achievement of homeschooled students versus traditionally schooled students attending a Catholic university. ''Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice March'', 16, 288–308</ref> A limited amount of data exists that homeschoolers in college were much less likely than their peers to pursue degrees in [[Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics|STEM]] topics, and more likely to pursue creative degrees, which may be attributed to the "math gap" discussed above.<ref name=":8" />

There is some evidence from 2009 that home-educated children in the UK are more likely to be [[NEET]], Not in Employment, Education or Training, at age 16 to 18.<ref name="HoC" />