The ranks of traditional-age students are stagnating, which means colleges are increasingly looking to recruit from other groups, including those who are older. A popular pool — for both institutions and policy makers — is people who have some college under their belt but no degree.
A new report, “Some College, No Degree,” shines a spotlight on a specific group of them: the ones who are most likely to re-enroll and finish.
“Potential completers” are what the report’s authors, researchers at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, call the 3.5 million adults who have collected what amounts to two years’ worth of full-time enrollment over the last decade.
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