The national study found that nationwide the number of degrees awarded needs to grow by more than a quarter million each year to meet President Barack Obama’s goal of having 60 percent of the adult population holding an advanced degree by 2025.
To do it’s part, Ohio needs to add 1.4 million graduates over the next 15 years.
Enrollments are up in Ohio and across the country, according to Dewayne Matthews, vice president of policy and strategy for Lumina, a non-profit education advocate. What hasn’t changed in nearly half a century are attainment rates.
“Right now, in Ohio, 1.3 million people have gone to college and didn’t get a degree or diploma,” Matthews said. “We need to change the incentives to focus on the prize, the result, and not simply enrolling people in school.”
Nationally, only about half of the students who begin college ultimately graduate.
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