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Women are more likely to graduate.(News Watch)
Not only are women the majority on U.S. college campuses today, where they account for about 57% of students, but they're more likely than men to graduate.
According to a recent report by the Education Trust, a non-profit research and advocacy agency, the women's six-year graduation rate is 66%, compared with 59% for men and 63% overall. The report, "A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities," is based on U.S. Education Department data.
The overall 63% rate is pretty lame, according to the group, and it's especially bad for minorities, low income students and those attending certain colleges. "This translates into over half a million collegians every year, a group disproportionately made up of low-income and minority students, who fall short of acquiring the credentials, skills and knowledge they seek," the report said.
With a rate of 35% of adults aged 25-34 having four-year degrees, Norway has now passed the U.S. rate of 30%. Not only is the United States' rate embarrassingly low, but it has not gone up in 20 years, the only country to not improve among 13 studied.
In the U.S., six-year graduation rates ranged from less than 10% to almost 100%, and about two-thirds of the 1,400 colleges and universities graduate 35-70%.
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