This thesis examines how education factors into migration decisions among Lebanese students and graduates. Using a survey-based single case study of 59 responses, it analyses education alongside push, pull and retain factors, with particular attention to whether education enables or hinders migration. The findings show that education is rarely the direct reason respondents leave Lebanon; economic instability, political instability, and limited opportunities remain more immediate factors. However, education shapes migration by providing language skills, credentials, professional expectations, and transferable forms of human capital. While these resources benefit individuals by making mobility more attainable, they also create a developmental contradiction when Lebanon is unable to absorb skilled graduates. The thesis argues that brain drain should therefore be understood not only as individual departure, but as a structural mismatch between education production and domestic absorption.