Comparing 7 College Statistics and Holiday Statistics

As you get ready for Thanksgiving and the Holiday season, here are 7 statistics about the holidays and college education for you to think about.

1. Americans eat about 690 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving. That’s the equivalent to the amount of sod on 3,080 college football fields.

2. This year, during the week of Thanksgiving, almost 14 times the amount of time the average college student spends studying each week (14 hours) will be spent playing college football (190 hours).

3. If Americans saved all the money they spent on the holidays in 2009 ($457 billion) they could pay the tuition for 1.6 billion bachelor’s degrees. That would mean everyone in the United States could earn 18 bachelor’s degrees.

4. If 35 families donated their Christmas budget this year ($800/family) they would have enough to help someone earn their bachelor’s degree.

5. Almost twice as many real Christmas trees are sold every year (25 million) than there are college students in the United States (14.4 million).

6. To keep your Christmas tree lit up for the entire time you are earning your bachelor’s degree, you would need to replace the lights 14 times due to burned out bulbs.

7. There are 32,256 LED lights in the New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square. That is almost the amount of hours it takes to earn a bachelor’s degree (35,040).

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