DIPLOMAS AND DROPOUTS

Less than 60 percent of new students graduate from four-year colleges within six years, say researchers at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Using official U.S. Department of Education graduation rates, researchers identified the top and bottom performers among institutions that have similar levels of admission selectivity. While student motivation, intent and ability matter greatly when it comes to college completion, this study suggests that the practices of higher education institutions also matter.

America's college graduation rate crisis is not just happening at the handful of institutions that admit only a few of their applicants and graduate most, it's happening at a large swath of institutions that admit many but graduate few.

[Heard a discussion on the radio recently where a common thread emerged re: Universities' practice of spreading the education out {hence the 6-year measure for a 4-year degree used above?} over six years, in that doing represents a nearly 50% increase in the educations' cost...

But who would be so cynical as to suspect that would have anything to do with it.]

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