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Article: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS POST GAINS IN GRADUATION RATES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 9, 2007
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The University of Texas System issued the following news release:
Recent efforts to improve graduation rates at The University of Texas System's nine academic institutions already have helped produce promising results, with most campuses showing gains in graduating students within five- and six-year time frames.
A study by the UT System's offices of Academic Affairs and Institutional Studies and Policy Analysis, which tracked student cohorts entering UT System institutions from 1998 to 1999, showed seven of the System's nine academic campuses posted increases in six-year graduation rates by an average of 3.3 percentage points, with the highest gain reaching 11 percentage points.
Moreover, ...