Social effects triggered by the expansion of higher education in Romania

In Romania, the expansion of education has triggered significant changes in the composition of the population according to educational levels and in relation to the emergence of the principle of equity. We analyse this phenomenon according to three aspects: age, status of residence and sex, and all these by comparing the total population and the Hungarian population from Romania, and also with other minority populations from Romania, as the case may be. Our main research questions in this paper are the following: How did the educational level change as a result of the extension of higher education, especially the percentage of higher education institution graduates between 2002 and 2011? How does the expansion of education prevail in the completion of social justice and in decreasing/eliminating ethnic-linguistic inequalities? Which are the main factors of inequality in the context of Roma and Hungarians from Romania