IU’s overall six-year graduation rate is about 70 percent, while the rate for Groups students who started in 2000 is about 50 percent. Wiggins says many of the program’s students face financial pressures that make it hard to keep up with their peers. Some work 20 to 30 hours a week, while others leave Bloomington for regional campuses to live with family and pay lower tuition. But she says many of the students get their degrees even if it takes 10 years.”
It sticks with them, wanting to get this degree,” Wiggins says.
IU provides the bulk of the funding, about $3.3 million, with another $420,000 a year from the U.S. Department of Education, says Dr. Neil D. Theobald, senior vice provost for budgetary administration and planning.
— Associated Press
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