USNews Peer Assessment

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Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:08:03 +0000

In terms of theories about why graduation rates are rising, I’d like to throw in the stupendous rise in tuition costs and increasing parental pressures to finish in four years.

But the question in terms of rankings is: why does it matter that a college misses or exceeds some arbitrary expectation set up by USNWR?
The information I would want is whether students do not graduate in six years because classes are so overcrowded that they can’t get into the ones they need.