TSU’s graduation rate as well as many of the HBCUs graduation rates are lower than the National Averages many due to the large numbers of poor students that are served at those institutions. Over half of the students don’t finish due to running out of funds to go to school. I saw it in action at my own HBCU as 100 kids dropped from my class within 1 semester and the vast majority occurred due to never having enough money to go but going anyway.