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Graduation rate at UNM lower than peer schools
Tricia Remark | July 26Only about 42 percent of UNM students graduate within six years. But there may be several underlying reasons for the less-than-impressive graduation rates, said Wynn Goering, vice provost of Academic Affairs. “One of the things we’ve learned about our students is that they have far more off-campus obligations than students in similar places,” Goering said. UNM students have far different lives compared to students at peer institutions, including the universities of Arizona and Colorado at Boulder, Goering said. According to fall 2009 surveys conducted by UNM, 43 percent of incoming freshmen care for a dependent, compared with only 19 percent of students at other schools.
