September 28, 2007
Economists Concoct New Method for Comparing Graduation Rates
A pair of economists at the College of William and Mary have devised a new way of comparing colleges' graduation rates — a method, borrowed from business analysis, that they believe is fairer and more useful than the techniques used by U.S. News & World Report and the Education Trust.
The professors, Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, developed an interest in graduation rates as they worked on a forthcoming book about higher-education finance.
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