College Gradutation on the Rise, new study says
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Hispanics enrolled in college have made modest gains in graduation rates among people of color, with 47.2 percent securing a degree in 2010, a study shows. That’s up from 43.7 percent in 2004.
While the study, by The Education Trust, notes that the findings show that colleges and universities can help Hispanic students get to graduate day without “becoming more exclusive and serving fewer Hispanic students,” it’s not all good news. It also said:
Though Hispanic graduation rates improved modestly overall, some differences remain beneath the averages: Figure 2 shows how Hispanic graduation rates increased at nearly two-thirds of the schools studied, yet declined at 1 in 3 schools. The graduation rate stayed the same at 6 in 100 schools.
But from a student’s perspective, the statistics are more troubling because more than 40 percent of Hispanic students are attending institutions that did not make any improvements in their graduation rates.
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