College drop-out rates are one of the most worrying problems with higher education today; however, it is one of the least understood problems. There are so many contributing factors that no one knows where to start the solution. With as few as fifty four percent of students graduating in six years it is easy to understand why a solution needs to be found. Even more disturbing the Associated Press notes that there are even larger discrepancies between drop-out rates among different races. With many schools reporting a twenty point lower graduation rate. Some blame students for not appreciating the sheer importance of a college education. Still others blame the colleges themselves for not implementing more programs to keep their students in school. Yet none of this truly matters because even if either of these were the problem they have no reasonable solution. The main solution would be for the government to offer incentives to schools based on their graduation rate. However, this would most likely to cause schools to just become even more selective, only accepting applicants who are most likely to graduate. The real victims in all of this are those students who do not graduate. They are promised an education that will get them a good job, and instead they don’t get a degree and end up with a huge debt. In most cases it would probably be better if those students hadn't even attended college because they would at least be free of student loans. The problem of the college drop-out rate is complex and hard to study a real solution won’t be able to be reached without much more study.
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