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Almanac 2012: The States

August 26, 2012
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States have responded in very different ways to the economic pressure of the past year, with some of them contemplating drastic action to reduce higher-education costs and others pushing to expand faculties.

As state colleges and universities attempt to rebound from several difficult years, leaders are looking to higher education to boost the economy. Meanwhile, one of the ideas foremost on legislative agendas has been improving college completion. | Read More »

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States have responded in very different ways to the economic pressure of the past year, with some of them contemplating drastic action to reduce higher-education costs and others pushing to expand faculties.

As state colleges and universities attempt to rebound from several difficult years, leaders are looking to higher education to boost the economy. Meanwhile, one of the ideas foremost on legislative agendas has been improving college completion. | Read More »

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49.7%

That’s the share of students who enrolled in two-year public institutions in Kentucky in the fall of 2010 who were still enrolled at the same institutions the next fall.

70%

That percentage of 2010-11 graduates in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin was employed in the fourth quarter of 2011.

16%

That’s the share of students who earned degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Virginia colleges in 2010-11, compared with 16.9 percent in 1992-93.

4%

Only that percentage of students graduated from Metropolitan State University, in St. Paul, within four years.

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