09 June 2019

Arizona #1: The 15 US states with the lowest college graduation rates

Arizona: 26.3% of students at colleges in Arizona graduated within six years.
That's a finding just published online on Business Insider
The 15 US states with the lowest college graduation rates
" . . . For each state, we took an average of those graduation rates among all the colleges and universities in that state that mainly award bachelor's degrees, as opposed to certificate programs or associates degrees. . . "
Where is the data from? What years?
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Hard-to-believe the data is so old. . . .or if graduating from college is a measure of success
"Those graduation rates were among first-time, full-time students who entered college in the 2011-2012 academic year, six years before the 2017-2018 year, the most recent year for which data was available. State rates were calculated by taking the average rate among all schools in-state, weighted by the size of each school's entering class in 2011."
> Colleges across the US have different graduation rates, and as the map above shows, those rates vary from state to state.
> The Department of Education provides data on the share of undergraduate students who complete their degree within 150% of the expected time — that is, graduating within six years for a standard four-year bachelor's degree.
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