How does a college student's social life affect the dropout rate? Overdoing it in college has its consequences. Excessive drinking and late nights can make it hard to keep up with studies. This affects the national dropout rate in three ways: Parents stop funding their child's college educati...
79.23%Dropout Rate There were approximately 51 students in the class of 2015. How many of them actually completed their degree in a timely fashion? Four years after beginning their degree, 10% of those students had graduated. By 2017, six years after starting their degree, 20% of the ...
As shown in the graph above, National Center for Education Statistics data shows that only 13 percent of community college students graduate in two years. Within three years, approximately 22 percent of students graduate; within four years, the rate stands at 28 percent. Further data from AIR s...
the only place for every young person after the completion of highschool. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, andthrough the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn’t makepeople intelligent, ambitious, happy, li...
According to the most recent statistics, the nationwide college graduation rate for black students stands at an appallingly low rate of 42 percent. This figure is 20 percentage points below the 62 percent rate for white students. Here, the only positive news we have to report is that over the...
A person who compares the annual earnings of college and high school graduates would no doubt conclude that higher education is a good investment—the present value of the college earnings premium (the better part of $1 million) seemingly far outdistances college costs, yielding a high rate of ...
"The U.S. has the highest college dropout rate,"says Gates. "We're number one in terms of the number of people who start college but we're like number 20 in terms of the number of people who finish college." Students should avoid wasting money on extra years of college by planning ...
When graduating one may not be able to receive their “dream job”. Evidence: In “Is College worth it?” by Dr. William Burnett gives us statistics about graduate employment rate. Recent date from the Census Bureau and department of labor found that 54% of recent graduate are either unempl...
In 2009, the enrollment rate of high school graduates reached a historical high of 70.1% (see above for statistics on the racial gap in graduation rates). Asian Americans have the highest enrollment rate (92.2%), followed by Whites (69.2%), Blacks (68.7%), and Hispanics (59.3%). ‹ ...
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, just 41% of first-time full-time college students earn a bachelor's degree in four years, and only 59% earn a bachelor's in six years, driving up the cost of attending college significantly. Even Gates has criticized these dropout ...