Michelle Kretzschmar
50-50 Highlights: Availability/Attendance of Colleges with High Graduation Rates by State
Perhaps you’ve seen some variation of this headline recently: “Most colleges students don’t graduate on time.” And maybe you’ve thought, “What’s the deal with college students these days?” and just left it at that. But what if the headline was “Most colleges fail to graduate students in 4 years?” Who are you thinking about now, the college or the student?
50-50 Highlights: Colleges Producing the Most PhD Degree Recipients
I’m not talking about institutions granting PhD degrees. I’m talking about the undergraduate programs that produce the most students receiving PhDs. This is called the undergraduate origins of Doctoral Recipients. This information is useful for people want to know where they should go as an undergraduate to have the best chances for getting their Doctorate. And it’s not always the places you think.
Student to Faculty Ratios: Should they be part of your college rankings?
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is less definitive and has to do with why Student to Faculty ratios are important and if they are always important. In other words, it depends. Fun, fun, fun.
If you just want to go with the short answer, take a peek at the graph below.
50-50 Highlights: 41 Best Financial Bets for Public Universities
I’ve created two lists of colleges to target for merit aid, one consisting of only 50-50 schools and a more general list taking into consideration test scores. Since all the colleges on the lists are private schools, I thought I would create a list best financial bets for 50-50 public universities. As I started looking at the schools, I realized that the criteria I used for the private colleges didn’t exactly apply to the public universities.
50-50 Highlights: Colleges for Hispanic Students
Since 2000, the percentage of Hispanics enrolled in college has increased by 50% to 15.8% of all college students. There are 444 colleges and universities with 500 or more full-time undergraduates where ten percent or more of the undergraduate population is Hispanic. A total of 92 of these schools appear on the 50-50 schools list.