@SlitheyTove You won’t ever be able to make an apples to apples comparison across all these countries. However, the OECD has developed a fairly intricate system of education levels it considers equal, if not the same. I think they are mostly reverse engineering, as it were, so whatever education it takes to become a nurse in a given country will be considered tertiary education. In some countries, the educational establishment will be called college and will be considered higher education, in others it will be called something else and will be considered vocational education. But at the end of the day, everyone’s a nurse.
In all countries, the level of educational attainment needed to gain access will be much lower than the level you need to gain access to medical school, be it lower GPA and SATs on graduating high school in the US or graduation from vocational track school at 16 versus college track school in countries which track by school.
I do think tertiary education means community college and AA degrees, too.