He added, "Due to absence and inability of teachers to handle the students properly, dropout rate of students in rural areas is higher than urban centers".

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For-profit colleges have been under fire in recent years for high dropout rates and saddling students with significant debt, but these two have held up better than most.

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The black dropout rates are high and nearly 50, 000 students cut class every day.

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Latino students overall have some of the highest dropout rates and the lowest share of the population with a bachelor's degree.

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We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation, and half of the students who begin college never finish.

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MOOCs have an enormous dropout rate, in some cases as high as nine out of 10 students.

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Shaw feels students need more rigorous majors to prepare them for the job market, but the late college dropout Steve Jobs pointed to a calligraphy class that he audited as one of his major commercial inspirations.

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