They, nevertheless, have consistently higher rates of retention and graduation than four-year colleges or even two-year community colleges.
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We have already made progress on this front. (Applause.) And I'm not just talking about four-year colleges, I'm talking about two-year community colleges, getting advanced training.
When we think about skills for American workers, we got to make sure that everybody has the opportunity not only for four-year colleges, but also two-year colleges, the community colleges that Dr. Jill Biden is doing such a great job promoting all across the country.
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Doubling the subsidized rate could also have discouraged students from seeking federal aid or pushed many toward cheaper public institutions or two-year community colleges, said Ronald Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and a professor of labor relations and economics.
If anything, the greatest advances in access have been to the benefit of lower-income and under-prepared students as there has been a proliferation of high quality two-year junior and community colleges that cater to such students.
Your list can include community colleges, state universities, institutions offering two-year degree programs, private colleges (regardless of sticker price), colleges close to home and colleges away from home, even out-of-state.
Phoenix's universities are doing well, and its community colleges, which provide two-year technical courses that are the vital boost for lifting unskilled immigrants into higher job brackets, are the country's best.
This is critically important because more than half of those who enter community colleges fail to either earn a two-year degree or transfer to a earn a four-year degree.
It's true that those with bachelor's degrees typically earn more over a lifetime than those with a two-year degree, but that's little consolation to those who are discouraged from going to community colleges and end up dropping out of a four-year school without a degree.
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