![]() ![]() Much of the financial pressure is due to the eye-popping cost of tuition and fees. About 45 percent of students in four-year colleges work more than 20 hours a week, and, according to the report: “The number one reason students give for leaving school is the fact that they had to work and go to school at the same time and, despite their best efforts, the stress of trying to do both eventually took its toll.” Their 2009 report, “ With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them,” reveals that a majority of young people drop out because it’s too hard to juggle work and school. To explore the high college dropout rate, Public Agenda, a nonprofit research group, interviewed more than 600 students ages 22 to 30, all of whom had attended some college. Why are so many students dropping out of college? Surveys and statistics show the top reasons for this phenomenon fall into these five categories. has the highest dropout rate in the industrial world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A 2011 Harvard study shows even more dismal graduation rates: 56 percent of students complete four-year degrees within six years - and only 29 percent of students complete two-year degrees within three years. A 2014 report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center states: “Over the past 20 years, more than 31 million students have enrolled in college and left without receiving a degree or certificate.” According to the National Center for Education Statistics only 60 percent of students who started a four-year college in 2008 graduated within six years. students who leave college every year is alarmingly high. I just didn’t spend much time on the academic part of college.” The high cost of college was also a factor, he says, “I wanted to jump into a career and to be more independent, to go to work every day and come home with a pay check.”įlores is just one of the many students who head off to college full of hope and ambition only to drop out. Reflecting on that decision two years later, Flores says he left because there was “too much focus on partying. But after his freshman year, Flores decided not to go back. Miguel Flores was excited when he got into San Francisco State University. ![]()
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