Give a gift subscription. He goes to a local, less highly-regarded university, she explained. In other words, not Yale. The dating market for women is getting tougher. In part, this is because fewer men are attending universities. Why would male enrollment in higher education matter for women?
Because women, on average, prefer educated men. Researchers analyzed personal dating ads posted by men on the West Coast and Midwest. They found that two of the strongest variables that predicted how many responses a man received from women were years of education and income.
Similar results have been found in Poland. Researchers analyzed how many women responded to dating ads posted by men. They found that men with higher levels of education and higher income received more responses.
A more recent study in Australia of more than 40, online daters found that women were more likely to initiate contact with a man if he had more education than themselves.
Still, young people today are more likely to use Tinder or other dating apps than Internet dating websites. Are things different on the apps? The researchers used the same male profiles, the only difference was level of education.
