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thranx on 15 January 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
thranx said:
dsgrue3 said:
thranx said:
You sure its not the fact that public schools and college education no longer mean you know anything as they graduate everybody. Its easy to point fingers, but most peoples problems start with themselves. I have yet to see motivated hard working people not find jobs, and I have seen plenty of slackers stay unemployed for months or years.

I can't speak in general, but in engineering there is a 50% retention rate from freshman to sophomore year, and more so beyond that so your point is at the very least blatantly false for that field.


for the hard scieneces i can see that, engineering, math, physics, chemistry. But any thing else that is slightly subjective. Which if i am not mistaken more people get their degrees from other fields than I listed.


77% running average across the board for all fields for retention of freshman -> sophomore.

If you look at the following on pages 4 and 5, the graduation rate is about 52%.

http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/10retain_trends.pdf


many people drop out of college due to monetary, time, or personal problems. But if you show up for class you will pass college and graduate. This table does not say why they did not graduate or why they left.