Higher Ed Utah

From the Quick and the Ed.  Almost 27 million Americans, 13.6 percent of all adults, are college dropouts.* To put that in perspective, that’s 10 million more than the number who have completed associates degrees and more than the number who’ve completed Master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees combined. These are adults over the age of 25 who were once enrolled in higher education somewhere but did not finish any certificate or degree and are no longer enrolled to do so. Unlike high school, where a dropout has the chance to earn an equivalent diploma through a battery of tests, students who drop out of college get no credit. Their money, plus the taxpayer dollars  invested in them, goes down the drain. To remedy this problem, higher education needs its own version of the GED

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