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Dec 8, 2021 10 min

Why Have College Completion Rates Increased

from The Harvard EdCast Hosted by Jill Anderson, Jeff Denning

What is driving an increase in college completion rates? It's not student characteristics or higher student enrollments, says Jeff Denning, an associate professor at Brigham Young University. Denning, an economist noticed the increasing trend started in the 1990s, and upon looking deeper discovered grade inflation is driving numbers up. In this episode, Denning explains this change and what it might mean for higher education.

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Economist Jeff Denning explains why college completion rates have gone up in the past few decades.

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