However, the California Higher Education system has had poor records of college completion and 4-year Baccalaureate degree attainment.
Its model utilizes recent college graduates as near-peer mentors to students lacking the social resources to successfully navigate the high school to college transition and to provide support through college completion.
It is 44th for two-year college completion, but 7th for 4-year college completion.
Women in their 20s outearn their male counterparts in most major metropolitan areas, largely because of higher rates of college completion.
The nonprofit organization seeks to increase college completion and student career readiness by utilizing its technology platform to connect college students with professionals.
Canada has more effective public investments in education, including nearly universal preschool, effective secondary schools and high rates of college completion.
On rates of college completion, the United States is in the lower half of developed nations.
The authors explain that between 1970 and 1999, post-secondary institutions saw a significant increase in enrollments and, at the same time, a decrease in college completion.
The President has proposed a plan to address college completion and strengthen the higher education pipeline to ensure that more students succeed and complete their degree.
Lumina seeks to drive the rate of college completion in the United States from its current level of just under forty per cent to sixty per cent.