Minnesota’s universities are not graduating as many students as they should — and are spending a higher-than-average amount of money to educate them, according to a draft report by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact in Minneapolis. In contrast, the report says, the state’s community and technical colleges are performing about as well as their national Read more →
Minnesota’s nonprofit private colleges have tied for fourth nationally in the percentage of students who complete school in four years, according to data published this month by the Minnesota Private College Council. The colleges had average four-year grad rates of 62 percent. (Note: Measured by another, probably more accurate way — not ranked by groupings Read more →
Over on the NewsCut blog, MPR’s Paul Tosto discusses an element that he finds disturbing in the 3-year graduation rate trends, as laid out in a report by Minnesota Compass. He expected grad rates to be higher for the flood of students and laid-off workers seeking shelter from the Great Recession: Many were dislocated by Read more →
You may have noticed this in the source material for yesterday’s piece by The Wall Street Journal on the fact that six in 10 community college students in the New York area drop out.
Saw this bit this morning — a report called With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them, on young Americans’ views on higher education and college completion, produced for the Gates Foundation. Here’s what it says are some main myths and realities: MYTH NO. 1: Most students go to college full-time. If they leave without a Read more →
The Winona Daily News looks at some of the state’s four-year graduation rates and some of the factors behind them, and gets some mixed reactions as to how important it is for students to finish their studies in the standard time. Winona State University Student Senate President Chris Brignull tells the paper: “Being able to Read more →
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, Read more →
The Minnesota Private College Council’s research arm just came out with some new stats on how it compared to the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system in awarding bachelor’s and graduate degrees this past school year. The aim seems to be to show that private colleges award a larger share of Read more →
Amid the news of Minnesota State University – Moorhead’s concern about its low graduation rates and the closure of Corrick Center for at-risk students, I stumbled across this Chronicle of Higher Education piece on how some students choose colleges based partly on their grad rates: Providing graduation rates, the researchers found, increased the likelihood (by Read more →
Looks like the Minnesota Private College Council is taking a few of the stats that it trumpets and turning them into graphics. The council’s site has a couple more.
Alex Friedrich