Finish-in-Four helps college leaders improve graduation rates to insure future success and growth of their institutions.

The national agenda for higher education is expanding beyond student access to include an emphasis on student success–graduation. This shift is occurring because of growing concerns about the college student drop-out rates. Nationally, less than one in two full-time students graduate with a bachelor’s degree in six years. The rate is worse for many minority students. Only one in three full-time students achieve community college degrees within six years. This high drop-out rate combined with an above inflationary rate of tuition increases has placed higher education in the “cross-hairs” of public opinion and legislative support.

In addition, the high school student pool relied upon to replace unsuccessful higher education scholars in the past is drying up. College leaders that don’t successfully shift from focusing on access to include student success as means to keep enrollments steady may find that they are locked into programs, capital investments and employment scenarios that will place their institutions at risk.