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11 Public Universities With The Worst Graduation Rates.
The Fiscal Times ^ | May 17, 2012 | BLAIRE BRIODY

Posted on 08/12/2013 12:13:52 PM PDT by Larry381

If you’re graduating from college this year, count yourself lucky.

Just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years, according to a 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Education study. Among the 18 developed countries in the OECD, the U.S. was dead last for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it ― even behind Slovakia.

College dropouts tend to be male, and give reasons such as cost, not feeling prepared, and not being able to juggle family, school and jobs, according to the Harvard study. An American Institutes for Research report last year estimated that college dropouts cost the nation $4.5 billion in lost earnings and taxes.

A number of four-year public universities, funded in part by taxpayer dollars, have graduation rates that are just as bad ― or worse ― as their for-profit counterparts.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...


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Although this piece is dated last year I thought it would be interesting to post it because frankly, I found it horrifying, especially the photo gallery that accompanies it.

check it out:

11 Public Universities With The Worst Graduation Rates

1 posted on 08/12/2013 12:13:53 PM PDT by Larry381
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To: Larry381

“College dropouts tend to be male, and give reasons such as cost, not feeling prepared, and not being able to juggle family, school and jobs”

Add the fact they are not wanted to succeed in the new world order unless they are queer.


2 posted on 08/12/2013 12:17:19 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

So? How about a list of colleges where nobody learns a dang thing?


3 posted on 08/12/2013 12:20:35 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Resolute Conservative

1. Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana
Graduation rate: 4%
Undergraduates: 2,590
Median SAT score: 715
Pell Grant recipients: 75.8%
In-State Tuition and fees: $3,906
Acceptance rate: 48.4%

2. University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C
Graduation rate: 7.7%
Undergraduates: 5,311
Pell Grant recipients: 44.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $7,000
Acceptance rate: 63.2%

3. Kent State University-East Liverpool, East Liverpool Ohio
Graduation rate: 8.9%
Undergraduates: 1,371
Pell Grant recipients: 51.2%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,288
Acceptance rate: 88.7%

4. Rogers State University, Claremore Oklahoma
Graduation rate: 11.5%
Undergraduates: 4,486
Median SAT score: 930
Pell Grant recipients: 40.5%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,820
Acceptance rate: 50.4%

5. Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
Graduation rate: 13.3%
Undergraduates: 6,964
Median SAT score: 796
Pell Grant recipients: 69.4%
In-state tuition and fees: $7,312
Acceptance rate: 36.4%

6. Ohio University Southern Campus, Ironton, Ohio
Graduation rate: 13.7%
Undergraduates: 2,199
Pell Grant recipients: 49.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,956
Acceptance rate: 85.1%

7. Kent State University-Tuscarawas, Ohio
Graduation rate: 13.9%
Undergraduates: 2,774
Pell Grant recipients: 51%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,288
Acceptance rate: 88.7%

8. Purdue University North Central, Indiana
Graduation rate: 14%
Undergraduates: 4,542
Median SAT score: 949
Pell Grant recipients: 31.6%
In-State Tuition and fees: $6,704
Acceptance rate: 87.1%

9. Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma
Graduation rate: 14.1%
Undergraduates: 5,860
Pell Grant recipients: 38.9%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,590
Acceptance rate: 99.7%

10. Ohio University at Chillicothe
Graduation rate: 15.6%
Undergraduates: 2,558
Pell Grant recipients: 46.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,956
Acceptance rate: 85.1%

11. Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland
Graduation rate: 16.3%
Undergraduates: 3,298
Median SAT score: 855
Pell Grant recipients: 58.3%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,732
Acceptance rate: 58.7%


4 posted on 08/12/2013 12:20:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Larry381

The article really doesn’t tell the whole story. Most of the schools mentioned are extension campuses - how many students transfer to to a school’s main campus, or to a better school, after a year or two? How many students are working full-time, and only take a course or two each semester? The schools in question may well be as horrible as their graduation rates make out, but more information is needed to make an informed judgement.


5 posted on 08/12/2013 12:22:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: SeekAndFind
When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....
6 posted on 08/12/2013 12:23:15 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: Larry381

Four of the ten are in my neck of the woods. From firsthand knowledge, it’s the product being spit out of the local high schools as much as anything.


7 posted on 08/12/2013 12:24:16 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Since there are precious few jobs in the Baraqqi “new normal”, it’s an expected outcome to borrow a ton of money and head off to college.


8 posted on 08/12/2013 12:25:56 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: SeekAndFind

How THE HECK does a “college” have a median SAT score of 715?? If either the math or verbal SAT is below 400, that should automatically prohibit admission into an acredited college.


9 posted on 08/12/2013 12:30:01 PM PDT by grania
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’m almost positive that the stats take into account transfers out. Regardless, it would be informative, although deathly politically incorrect, to post the minority enrollment percentages and minority drop-out rates as well.

Thomas Sowell has written extensively on how many minorities are forced into schools that they are ill-equiped to handle. I’m sure this is the case here, especially in NO.


10 posted on 08/12/2013 12:32:54 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Larry381
I don't know which would be worse, a school with a high dropout rate, or a school with a large number of graduates that are not qualified to earn a living.
11 posted on 08/12/2013 12:33:19 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: nascarnation
When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....

I tutored remedial math students in college... ALL athletes and ALL black. And I'm talking arithmetic.

12 posted on 08/12/2013 12:34:45 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: grania
How THE HECK does a “college” have a median SAT score of 715??

The "soft bigotry of low expectations" rears its ugly head at every turn among liberals.

13 posted on 08/12/2013 12:36:24 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: nascarnation
When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....

Let's all remember, SHE WILL BE GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL and still cannot read cursive. Which one of these colleges on the above list will accept her and include a class to teach cursive?


14 posted on 08/12/2013 12:36:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Tom Joyner said he would pay her tuition at any historically black university. Southern would qualify.


15 posted on 08/12/2013 12:38:51 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Larry381

The Roach Motel - you can get in but you can’t get out.

An A to the professors who just didn’t just pass them along?


16 posted on 08/12/2013 12:41:42 PM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Larry381; All

On the list....

Southern-NO, UDC, Tx Southern, Coppin St....are Black schools.....except for UDC....considered HBCUs....Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The Ohio based schools are low because Ohio has open enrollment for college....in other words....a HS diploma and a pulse gets you in. Most states do not have open enrollment at university level

I bet Oklahoma has the same rule...with 2 schools on the list


17 posted on 08/12/2013 12:41:42 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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To: Larry381
The graduation rate at Columbia and Harvard Law School is 100% for those among us who are melanin enhanced.
18 posted on 08/12/2013 12:42:37 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: SeekAndFind

Woo-hoo! 4 of the 11 are in Ohio. And as you know, when an Ohioan starts something he


19 posted on 08/12/2013 12:45:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: Larry381
Perhaps a realization that one's major field of study will position one for a career that pays little more than minimum wage, with tips, has awakened a few "students."

And perhaps a realization that unemployed parents, who are also underwater in their mortgages, can no longer provide an allowance and/or tuition assistance has also opened the eyes of erstwhile scholars.

Behold the great and powerful Obama Recovery!

20 posted on 08/12/2013 12:46:19 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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