Kentucky also lags in four-year college completion rate

A new report presented by Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board (which creates the SAT college entrance tests and runs the AP program) is loaded with educational comparison data for the 50 states and Washington DC.

Over the past few days, we’ve looked at Kentucky’s substandard performance in getting students through to two-year degrees. Now, let’s see how we do with four-year degree programs.

Sadly, the answer is – not well. Graph 9.3c on page 159 in the report shows Kentucky’s four-year college success rate is only 47.3 percent. That ranks only 36th in the nation and is nearly 9 points below the US average.