March 11, 2009
Education Dept. Releases Data on Enrollment, Graduation Rates, and Student Aid
Washington
President Obama sees a future in which the United States has a higher proportion of college graduates than any other country in the world. He set an ambitious date of 2020 for reaching that goal—and data released Tuesday provide a glimpse of just how far higher education has to go.
In recent years, only 36 percent of students who started at a four-year college seeking to earn a bachelor's degree had actually graduated from that institution within four years, according to a
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