In analyzing federal data for an in-depth examination of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, the Atlanta Journal Constitution found that the six-year graduation rates at 20 schools were 20 percent or lower in 2015.
This means that four of five beginning freshmen at those schools didn’t earn a degree within six years.
A handful of HBCUs are graduating more than 50 percent of new freshmen within six years. Spelman College in Atlanta, for example, led all HBCUs, with a rate of 76 percent. Others, however, are struggling.
Here’s a sampling:
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7 comments:
6 years? college is 4 years
I think if they drop out or don't graduate they should have to pay the money back that the taxpayers spent on sending them to college. There is a lot of waste the goes on with "free college"
Spelman is doing something right. What is it and why aren't they the standard?
Read the book "The Bell Curve" and the HBCU stats will make sense.
I completely forgot. You're right.
Intelligence is hereditary. Don't you know?
Many are enrolled who can find the cafeteria but not the bookstore. They're home for good after first semester grades.
HBCUs are actively complicit by recruiting, enrolling and cashing tuition checks from Uncle Sam and others knowing full well how unprepared many students are for even their meager level of instruction.
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