A recent report by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems shows that Missouri ranks below the national average of the percentage of adults (aged 32 to 64) who have a college degree. “Adding it Up: State Challenges for Increasing College Access and Success,” shows that currently 33.2 per cent of Missouri’s adult population has a college degree, compared with the nation’s average of 37.4 per cent. Yet Missouri’s percentage is supposed to overtake the national average by 2025, with 49. 3 to 45. 9 per cent respectively. Suggestions by the report to improve this percentage includes more focus on the state’s continually increasing minority population, especially those of college age. More students also need to complete their studies at two and four year schools in order to measure up to the best performing states. The study also shows that while Missouri is above average in its high school graduation rate of 76.4 per cent, it is below average in the number of high school graduates who continue on to college at 52.8 per cent. Overall, the United States is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the percentage of adults who hold college degrees.
Missouri behind national average of adults with college degree
December 4, 2007 by Elizabeth Ann Peer
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