Students are more likely to persist, stay on track, and graduate on time when they receive face-to-face advising from a guidance counselor. But many students, especially at community colleges, don't even know advising is available to them, and the ratio of guidance counselors to students is dropping across the country.
Reports NBC News / The Hechinger Report:
On average, students rack up 136.5 credits toward bachelor’s degrees that require only 120, the advocacy organization Complete College America reports. One of every three switches majors, according to the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. And the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics says that fewer than one in four students at public universities, and around a third at private ones, graduate within four years.
"There's too much wandering around," says Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. "It makes sense that if you know where you're going, you're more likely to get there."
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