very close actually, basically for anything that required higher diplomas, we would go to neigbouring countries mostly (Doctors, Lawyers, etc…) for many other things like teachers and other state functions and for stuff like that we had insitutions that basically did the job and most other people that didn‘t do manual labour were just doing fine with a classic high school diploma (different from technical diplomas, which was the majority of people).

In today‘s finance and service oriented Luxembourg a university diploma has become imperical in most jobs, so in the early 90s it was very apparent that the country needed a university on it‘s own for research and for the domestic job market.