Ohio State University

Date: May 31 2003
Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time)
hy is there such a disparity between private and public graduation rates?

a.Better students attend private schools?

b.Private schools support their students better?

c.Private schools have more to loose if their students drop out?

d.Socio-economic factors favor private school students?

e.Public schools are huge uncaring bureaucracies?

f.Public schools answer to their states legislature not the students or parents?

g.All of the above?

h.Who cares?

These statistics are from the NCAA web site:

Division I Public (N = 212)—FRESHMAN-COHORT GRADUATION RATES All Students Student-Athletes #

1995-96 Graduation Rate 55% 55%
Four-Class Average 53% 54%

Division I Private (N = 112)—FRESHMAN-COHORT GRADUATION RATES All Students Student-Athletes # 1995-96 Graduation Rate 73% 72%
Four-Class Average 72% 70%