Less for More: Low Rates of Completion and High Costs at Connecticut\u2019s Four-Year Colleges<\/a>\u201d found that nearly half of the state\u2019s 22 four-year colleges charged an \u201cexceptionally high net price to students from the lowest income families.\u201d It also found that 12 of the colleges \u201ccharged\u00a0more than double the net price that a national peer institution charged to comparable low-income students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nUsing data from 2016 and 2017, it found that the University of Bridgeport and Danbury\u2019s Western Connecticut State College (WCSU) and New London\u2019s Mitchell College consistently graduated less than 50 percent of their first-time, full-time student populations during the first six years of enrollment.<\/p>\n\n\n
The study looked at 22 of the state\u2019s 27 public and private universities and compared them with similar institutions across the country, according to an article in elsol.com.<\/p>\n\n\n
Colleges like Southern Connecticut State University, the\u00a0University\u00a0of Bridgeport and the\u00a0University\u00a0of Hartford, to name three examples, do a poor job of graduating various underrepresented marginalized populations relative to their respective national peer cohorts, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n
When compared to 16 universities, Southern Connecticut State University ranked 12th<\/sup>\u00a0with a Latino graduation rate of 35.1 percent. The University of Hartford also ranked 12th<\/sup>\u00a0out of 16 among its peers with a Latino graduation rate of 41.4 percent. And the University of Bridgeport ranked 15 out of 16 among its peers with a Latino graduation rate of 26.3 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe report also pointed out that Connecticut\u2019s four-year colleges had average net prices for low-income students that were significantly higher than most of their peer institutions serving similar students. For example, it showed WCSU\u2019s average net for low-income students being more than $14,000 per year, compared to Massachusetts\u2019 Westfield State University which charged $2,707 less per year and had a higher graduation rate.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThe takeaway from this study is that too many Connecticut students are simply not set up for success. Connecticut can and should do better by its students,\u201d Amy Dowell, state director of Education Reform Now Connecticut told westfaironline.com. <\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThis data shows that our institutions of higher education are sometimes leaving our most vulnerable students worse off than before they enrolled,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we ask young people to take on debt without even earning the credentials that will allow for paying it off \u2014 that also has a compounding effect on our state economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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