11 Public Universities With The Worst Graduation Rates.

The Fiscal Times ^ | May 17, 2012 | BLAIRE BRIODY

[Larry381]

If you’re graduating from college this year, count yourself lucky.

Just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years, according to a 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Education study. Among the 18 developed countries in the OECD, the U.S. was dead last for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it ― even behind Slovakia.

College dropouts tend to be male, and give reasons such as cost, not feeling prepared, and not being able to juggle family, school and jobs, according to the Harvard study. An American Institutes for Research report last year estimated that college dropouts cost the nation $4.5 billion in lost earnings and taxes.

A number of four-year public universities, funded in part by taxpayer dollars, have graduation rates that are just as bad ― or worse ― as their for-profit counterparts.

[Larry381]

Although this piece is dated last year I thought it would be interesting to post it because frankly, I found it horrifying, especially the photo gallery that accompanies it.

check it out:

11 Public Universities With The Worst Graduation Rates

[Resolute Conservative]

“College dropouts tend to be male, and give reasons such as cost, not feeling prepared, and not being able to juggle family, school and jobs”

Add the fact they are not wanted to succeed in the new world order unless they are queer.

[GeronL]

So? How about a list of colleges where nobody learns a dang thing?

[SeekAndFind]

1. Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana
Graduation rate: 4%
Undergraduates: 2,590
Median SAT score: 715
Pell Grant recipients: 75.8%
In-State Tuition and fees: $3,906
Acceptance rate: 48.4%

2. University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C
Graduation rate: 7.7%
Undergraduates: 5,311
Pell Grant recipients: 44.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $7,000
Acceptance rate: 63.2%

3. Kent State University-East Liverpool, East Liverpool Ohio
Graduation rate: 8.9%
Undergraduates: 1,371
Pell Grant recipients: 51.2%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,288
Acceptance rate: 88.7%

4. Rogers State University, Claremore Oklahoma
Graduation rate: 11.5%
Undergraduates: 4,486
Median SAT score: 930
Pell Grant recipients: 40.5%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,820
Acceptance rate: 50.4%

5. Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
Graduation rate: 13.3%
Undergraduates: 6,964
Median SAT score: 796
Pell Grant recipients: 69.4%
In-state tuition and fees: $7,312
Acceptance rate: 36.4%

6. Ohio University Southern Campus, Ironton, Ohio
Graduation rate: 13.7%
Undergraduates: 2,199
Pell Grant recipients: 49.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,956
Acceptance rate: 85.1%

7. Kent State University-Tuscarawas, Ohio
Graduation rate: 13.9%
Undergraduates: 2,774
Pell Grant recipients: 51%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,288
Acceptance rate: 88.7%

8. Purdue University North Central, Indiana
Graduation rate: 14%
Undergraduates: 4,542
Median SAT score: 949
Pell Grant recipients: 31.6%
In-State Tuition and fees: $6,704
Acceptance rate: 87.1%

9. Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma
Graduation rate: 14.1%
Undergraduates: 5,860
Pell Grant recipients: 38.9%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,590
Acceptance rate: 99.7%

10. Ohio University at Chillicothe
Graduation rate: 15.6%
Undergraduates: 2,558
Pell Grant recipients: 46.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $4,956
Acceptance rate: 85.1%

11. Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland
Graduation rate: 16.3%
Undergraduates: 3,298
Median SAT score: 855
Pell Grant recipients: 58.3%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,732
Acceptance rate: 58.7%

[Slings and Arrows]

The article really doesn’t tell the whole story. Most of the schools mentioned are extension campuses - how many students transfer to to a school’s main campus, or to a better school, after a year or two? How many students are working full-time, and only take a course or two each semester? The schools in question may well be as horrible as their graduation rates make out, but more information is needed to make an informed judgement.

[nascarnation]

When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....

[goodwithagun]

Four of the ten are in my neck of the woods. From firsthand knowledge, it’s the product being spit out of the local high schools as much as anything.

[nascarnation]

Since there are precious few jobs in the Baraqqi “new normal”, it’s an expected outcome to borrow a ton of money and head off to college.

[grania]

How THE HECK does a “college” have a median SAT score of 715?? If either the math or verbal SAT is below 400, that should automatically prohibit admission into an acredited college.

[fwdude]

I’m almost positive that the stats take into account transfers out. Regardless, it would be informative, although deathly politically incorrect, to post the minority enrollment percentages and minority drop-out rates as well.

Thomas Sowell has written extensively on how many minorities are forced into schools that they are ill-equiped to handle. I’m sure this is the case here, especially in NO.

[oldbrowser]

I don't know which would be worse, a school with a high dropout rate, or a school with a large number of graduates that are not qualified to earn a living.

[fwdude]

When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....

I tutored remedial math students in college... ALL athletes and ALL black. And I'm talking arithmetic.

[fwdude]

How THE HECK does a “college” have a median SAT score of 715??

The "soft bigotry of low expectations" rears its ugly head at every turn among liberals.

[SeekAndFind]

When the MEDIAN SAT score is in the 700s, there's little doubt that most will dropout.....

Let's all remember, SHE WILL BE GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL and still cannot read cursive. Which one of these colleges on the above list will accept her and include a class to teach cursive?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Tom Joyner said he would pay her tuition at any historically black university. Southern would qualify.

[ex-snook]

The Roach Motel - you can get in but you can’t get out.

An A to the professors who just didn’t just pass them along?

[SeminoleCounty]

On the list....

Southern-NO, UDC, Tx Southern, Coppin St....are Black schools.....except for UDC....considered HBCUs....Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The Ohio based schools are low because Ohio has open enrollment for college....in other words....a HS diploma and a pulse gets you in. Most states do not have open enrollment at university level

I bet Oklahoma has the same rule...with 2 schools on the list

[Gay State Conservative]

The graduation rate at Columbia and Harvard Law School is 100% for those among us who are melanin enhanced.

[KarlInOhio]

Woo-hoo! 4 of the 11 are in Ohio. And as you know, when an Ohioan starts something he

[N. Theknow]

Perhaps a realization that one's major field of study will position one for a career that pays little more than minimum wage, with tips, has awakened a few "students."

And perhaps a realization that unemployed parents, who are also underwater in their mortgages, can no longer provide an allowance and/or tuition assistance has also opened the eyes of erstwhile scholars.

Behold the great and powerful Obama Recovery!