More Latino students are enrolling in four-year colleges and universities than ever before. But what happens to these students after they arrive on campus? Do they leave with a degree?
Simply attending college does not provide the personal or broader social benefits that come with completing a degree – particularly a bachelor’s degree.
Bachelor Degree Holders: Earn, on average, nearly $25,000 more annually
2x less likely to be unemployed or out of the labor force
Are more likely to vote and volunteer
Just 17.8 percent of young Latino adults, ages 25-34, hold a bachelor’s degree compared to 43.7 percent of young White adults. Improving college completion rates for Latino students can go a long way toward fixing this inequality.A little over 5 in 10 (53.6 percent) Latino students who start college as first-time, full-time freshmen at four-year institutions earn bachelor’s degrees from those institutions within six years — a rate 10 percentage points below that of their White peers.This completion gap has multiple causes and closing it will require a three-pronged strategy: > Closing the completion gap at each college and university, Ensuring selective institutions – with more resources and higher graduation rates – enroll more Latino students, and Improving completion 
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