Since Covid, community colleges, nationwide, have experienced a drop in enrollments. We see this playing out in California where recent data indicates a declining trend in community college transfers to the University of California (UC) system over the past three years. Looking at the primary community college feeders to the …
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Last September, the New York Times ran an article about Tulane University’s efforts to rebalance its gender ratio in admissions by targeting more male applicants. This prompted our team to investigate what, if any, role gender plays in admissions. Our review of the Common Data Set from the large research …
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The Forbes 2023 College Financial Grades report paints a largely positive picture of the financial health of America’s elite higher education institutions. Remarkably, 93% of the colleges and universities that ranked in the top 100, according to US News and World Report’s classifications of liberal arts colleges or national universities, …
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Students often expect to complete their undergraduate study in four years, but an analysis of the Common Data Set shows that spending an additional year or two is not uncommon.
At a group of selected technical universities (listed in the graph below), the median four-year graduation rate is 69%. This …
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Test optional policies across U.S. Colleges have resulted in a widespread increase in admitted scores. Looking at the small range of schools depicted below, we see that during the fall of 2019 (prior to test optional policies) the 25th percentile of ACT scores from admitted students were between 26 and …
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In a study of data collected from high schools across the United States, College Board has indicated that students with several passing AP exam scores tend to double major in college. According to the report, 4,330 students out of 52,551 (8%) with one AP exam score of greater than …
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As college tuition rises, many are asking: is it worth it? In our research of the question, we selected a number of universities across the United States and compared the cost of tuition with early-career (0-5 years) and mid-career (10+ years) salaries earned by graduates.
Given the lower cost of …
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The annual release of the U.S. News Best Colleges list came with new methodologies for ranking schools. While the recent change in approach includes parameters such as faculty salaries and rank, the most controversial change focuses on test scores during the pandemic.
Colleges reporting less than 50% of their admitted …
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Canadian universities have grown in visibility as U.S. families seek affordable college tuition. An examination of Canada’s top-ranked schools reveals that ranking does not correlate with the cost of international tuition. The University of Toronto is an exception; it is both the most highly ranked and most expensive college …
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