Skip to main content

Why college graduation rate is so low?

  To graduate in four years, students must take and pass at least 15 credits a semester. What is pretty a lot for students and some people cannot afford it. Some people fail their classes, so they have to take them again.That's why four-year graduation rate is 33.3%. Some people think that four years is not a lot ,so they decide to take a break. Otherwise students who's taking six-year college know that they a lot ofyears left, so they are trying to finish it as soon as possible.


Let’s talk about the factors in low graduation rates. First factor is going to be Income-related issues. One of the largest factors is being a family and personal income. If a student cannot continue
paying for college, they may have to drop out completely or put their education on hold, quite possible for years. That way they can go to work to supplement the family income or even because the student provides the sole financial support for the family. Other students may drop out to assume childcare responsibility for younger siblings or aging parents or grandparents. All these examples making students graduate later.

Another factor is academic preparation. For many students, the jump from high school classes to college is a bit larger than they originally thought. Students may struggle academically and do not advance once in high school because of failed classes. The failure may be a result of an undiagnosed or diagnosed learning disability, apathy or lack of strong academic potential. After repeated failure, these students give up and drop out -- especially if their peers have moved on to the next grade or to graduation.


"But preparation is not the only concern of low-income students. College dropout rate by race and social class is also directly related to the cost of college tuition in America. Tuition costs have doubled in the last 30 years - more than 213% between 1988 and 2020."

Some high school students and college students drop out because they want to work to earn money. They may need money to finance a car, pay for auto insurance, buy clothes or electronics, pay for housing or support unhealthy addictions. Most high school and college students don't have the time and energy to go to school all day, complete homework assignments and still work enough hours to support lofty expenses. Dropouts who are concerned about their immediate, short-term financial situation may see a full-time job as the best way to maintain the lifestyle they desire.



Sources:
 https://www.collegeraptor.com/find-colleges/articles/questions-answers/graduation-rates-low-across-country/
https://www.valuecolleges.com/resources/faqs/are-college-graduation-rates-important/
https://education.seattlepi.com/reasons-low-high-school-graduation-rates-2462.html


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

George Edwin Taylor vs. Kamala Harris

Facts about George Edwin Taylor. Taylor’s mother died in 1861 or 1862, leaving him with no known sponsor or relative. Young Taylor was left a waif and slept in dry goods boxes and he e survived (a miracle in itself) and arrived at La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1865, onboard a side-paddle wheeler. To support himself, the Times reported, Taylor took a job as a newspaper reporter in La Crosse. He eventually became editor of the La Crosse Evening Star . By 1886, he owned and edited The Wisconsin Labor Advocate, a La Crosse newspaper with an overwhelmingly white readership. He had shared the stage–literally–with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois and was a business partner with George Woodson, founder of the National Bar Association.  He knew Buffalo Bill Cody personally and had worked for “Brick” Marcus Pomeroy, editor of the National Democrat . Given the fact that Taylor received fewer than 2,000 votes when he ran for president in 1904, it is hard to ca...
Post a Comment
Read more
   Thomas Edison Did Not Invent The Light Bulb.      Thomas Edison shouldn't be credited as the inventor of the light bulb! The light bulb was around for a long time before Edison started working on it. How it says in the article: "Ernest Freeberg shows that the light bulb reflected the work of many inventors, rather than Edison’s lone genius." At this point I can say that Thomas Edison stole —ideas from other inventors who were also working on an incandescent bulb.   Two Canadians, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans, successfully produced and patented an electric filament lamp before Edison had seriously turned his mind to electric lighting. Woodward and Evans endeavoured to refine and commercialize their light bulb with little success, eventually succumbing to a lack of funding and selling their patent rights to Edison in 1879 for US$5,000 (or about $100,000 in today’s dollars). With access to the necessary funding, Edison was able to develop an imp...
Post a Comment
Read more

Music

    Music is very important factor in our lives. Music can affect peoples attention, emotion, cognition and behavior. People can communicate thought music expressing their feelings and using vocal. It can also help about relaxation and pleasure, happiness and sadness.  Listening to happy vs. sad music can affect the way you perceive the world around you.  According to statistics:  86% of users of the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy services said that music therapy had enabled them to develop social skills and interaction (Nordoff Robbins, n.d.).      Julian Levy(2017) shares the six major health benefits of music therap y: Music therapy reduce anxiety and physical effects of stress. It improves healing. It can help manage Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Music therapy reduce depression and other symptoms in the elderly. It helps to reduce symptoms of psychological disorders including schizophrenia. Music therapy improves self-expression and comm...
Post a Comment
Read more