Thoughts About Indiana's College Drop Out Rate

Here's an editorial from the IndyStar -

What's behind Indiana's college dropout rate?
The successful completion of a college education in America has great benefits. On average, college graduates will earn twice the amount throughout their lives as their non-college graduate counterparts. However, recent research shows that only about one in five Hoosiers who enter high school obtain a bachelor's degree within six years of high school graduation or an associate degree within three years.

Using data for 1998 to 2004, we learn that in Indiana nearly 30 percent of the 14-year-old children entering high school never graduate. Of those who do, roughly 40 percent do not go right on to college, meaning only 43 percent of the relevant age population actually enters college, at least immediately. Perhaps the most unfortunate and remarkable attrition is during college itself, where more than half of those students entering college do not receive a degree in a timely manner.
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