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Article: Fewer than half of students graduate: ; West Virginia fares poorly among states in Southern Regional; Education Board
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 24, 2009
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More often than not, all the hard work of going to college -
applying and getting in, filling out endless financial aid forms and
taking out loans, buying a mini-fridge for the dorm room and
nervously moving in with help from mom and dad - will leave students
in a position they don't expect: still without a college degree.
More than half the students who start at a four-year public
college in West Virginia fail to graduate from it within even six
years, according to figures released Monday by the Southern Regional
Education Board.
The rest of those students either transferred out of the college
to another school or left college altogether, perhaps to take a job,