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Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Increasing the proportion of the adult population with a higher-education degree is critical to creating opportunities for individuals and sustaining the country’s economic growth. Yet college attainment rates in the U.S. have remained nearly flat for the past 10 years, whereas they have continued to rise in most industrialized nations. Based on a recent analysis, we estimate that the U.S. needs to graduate roughly one million more people a year by 2020 to ensure that the country has the skilled workers it needs to maintain economic growth.