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Underserved Students Make Progress at For-profit Institutions

by Michelle J. Nealy , June 9, 2008

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UPX began as a degree-completion institution, an institution that students sought out to finish what they had started. Until the advent of the associate degree program at UPX, students with zero transfer credits were a rarity. Therefore, the completion rates reported to IPEDS differ from the completion rates calculated by using the true population of UPX, most of which does not fall within the IPEDS definition.

Despite increased risk factors for completion and lower skills among incoming students, completion rates for the university are comparable to those reported nationally in the areas of critical thinking, reading and math.

UPX’s report also touts the school’s commitment to diversity. In 2007, the University of Phoenix was listed by the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as having graduated the largest number of underrepresented students in master’s degree programs.

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