Why it's Unfair to Compare Community College Graduation Rates to For-Profits

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As education becomes more mobile, the graduation rates become useless. We should be encourages colleges to be more flexible, but ratings like these encourage territorial attitudes.

While certainly there's an upward tick in mobile education, it remains a distant outlier of higher education. Our education system is still based on the traditional student archetype. Which under that model, there's still merit to this metric.

Unfortunately, community colleges are not necessarily geared towards solely traditional students. Thereby skewing this metric.