Only 40 percent of all undergrads graduate from college in four years, U.S. News & World Report writes.
But because 89 out of 100 Carleton College students get their degrees in that time, the school is in the magazine’s 10 Colleges With the Highest 4-Year Graduation Rates.
(It’s tied for 5th place with Davidson, Pomona, Bowdoin, Duke and the U.S. Naval Academy.)
Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
Alex Friedrich