College Dropouts

Essay

College Dropouts

Introduction

The recently growing rates of college and high school dropouts have caused an alarm among the social authorities . This situation is of major concern to higher authorities as the future of whole society depends on the youth of the society and after spending so much on the education and molding the youth to take over their place as future leaders of the world , this increasing rate of college drop outs feels like all efforts of the higher authorities are going to waste . Many researchers have focused

their efforts on finding the causes and reasons for students opting to leave studies instead of aiming for higher educational qualifications and the underlying factors that lead these young adults to give up education which shall become their precious possession in the job market securing a good job and consequently a good place in the society

College Dropout Statistics

Comparing the rates of dropouts in 2007 , 16 .0 of persons between 16 and 24 years of age (nearly 6 .2 million people ) were found to be high school dropouts in US . Among these dropouts , 60 .1 were men , 18 .8 were Black and 30 .1 were Hispanic . Nearly one in five U .S . men between the ages of 16-24 (18 .9 ) were dropouts in 2007 . Nearly three out of 10 Hispanics were dropouts (27 .5 , including recent immigrants . More than one of five Blacks had dropped out of school (21 ) as against a dropout rate for Whites of 12 .2...