The College Dropout Fiasco

Only 40% of two million college freshmen graduate in four years; 45% never graduate.

The only conclusion can be that the college system often does more for the colleges, teachers and staff, on balance, than it does for a large portion of their consumers.

What are some of the consumer advantages bought at great cost? Forget about education. But the experience helps parents boast that their kids went to college, and it does the same for the dropouts themselves. They generally never have to mention whether they ever did earn a degree.

Or whether or not their major was medicine or “communications,” or a form of physical ed. Whatever the major, it frequently fails to prepare a student for a job.