Enticing myths about the highly successful college dropout continue to circulate: stories of tech giants, Hollywood icons, and billionaire entrepreneurs who achieved fame and fortune despite never graduating—and even because they never completed their degrees. Yet statistics confirm that an overwhelming majority of the nation’s high achievers hold at least a college degree. Correcting misinformation about the ROI of a college degree is crucial for helping stopout students persist to graduation and persuading stopout students to finish what they started.
In this free resource, ReUp Education shares some common myths and realities of the stopout student population—and how institutions can combat these myths to support college completion.
ReUp is the market leader in partnering with universities and community colleges to re-enroll the 36 million Americans who stopped out of college without receiving a degree.
With the substantial financial backing of Avathon Capital, an impact-oriented investment firm, ReUp engages stopout students at our partner institutions at scale in six weeks. Our personalized, tech-driven solution combined with a diverse team of expert Success Coaches have helped re-enroll more than 19,000 students in the past five years alone.